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...have a very good start and I think we can outsmart them," LaFollette said yesterday...

Author: By Natalie S. Bigelow, | Title: Yale Oarswomen Dump 'Cliffe Heavies | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...Woody Hayes, life, like oldtime football, was three yards and a cloud of dust. "I may not be able to outsmart too many people, but I can outwork 'em," he frequently said, and he was right. But whatever his intellectual insecurities, Hayes was confident that he was receiving life's message loud and clear. Rectitude, he was certain, lay in Midwestern values, rock-ribbed Republicanism and college football. Just as surely, permissiveness led to social cataclysm, liberalism to national weakness. He built his personal philosophy on the lessons of war and football, and he saw numerous parallels between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Violent World Of Woody Hayes | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...what is Dean Rosovsky's rationale for his new system? The Crimson article says "[Rosovsky] wishes to discourage attempts to 'outsmart the system.'" To outsmart the system? In other words, to make use of our initiative, our free will? It strikes us as rather fascist. Craig Taylor '79 Roger Martin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADCLIFFE ROULETTE | 3/11/1976 | See Source »

This is not Brayton's style. He's more or less a wily pitcher--he tries to outsmart the batter, throw a wide variety of pitches rather than blaze it by him. Less a grunt thrower like Tom Seaver than, say, a Catfish Hunter. (Whom he admires: "He'll give you one pitch to hit and if you miss it, you're gone.") In the past year the style has worked well enough, even though he's at "the bottom of the totem pole" on the best pitching staff on the league. He led the team in ERA last year...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: In Another League Now | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...Connecticut field hockey team defeated the 'Cliffe stick handlers decisively Saturday, showing from the start they could outsmart the Crimson at their own game, as they notched a 3-1 triumph...

Author: By Ann M. Koufman, | Title: Connecticut Confuses the Cliff To Take Decisive 3-1 Victory | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

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