Word: rout
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This regrettable lack of restraint was especially evident on the gridiron. Dunster and Lowell Houses, apparently trying to match Harvard's rout of Bucknell, scored 53 and 59 points against Winthrop and Kirkland Houses respectively. Biggest factor in the Lowell triumph was quarterback Joel Cantrick, who threw five scoring passes...
...soccer victors were only slightly less relentless. Dudley's commuters did their work early in their 4-1 rout of winless Adams House. Three Dudley scores came in the first half as the Adams defenders made the mistake of getting mixed-up in front of the nets...
Yale quarterback Brian Dowling looked unstoppable again last Saturday as he directed a 35-13 rout of Brown, Dowling contributed 303 yards to Yale's record 614-yard attack. Brown, minus its first-string quarterback, could find no defense against the incredible Dowling. He threw two touchdown bombs of 40 and 75 yards to halfback Calvin Hill. When he could see no receiver down field in the second quarter he simply ran it in himself from 54 yards...
...Schweizer edged Brown captain Don Humphrey for ninth, and senior Pete Dennehy completed the rout by polishing off the other Bruins...
...latest polls give Richard Nixon a 2-to-l lead over Hubert Humphrey. The GOP also has hopes of capturing the Governor's mansion, both state houses, and six of Iowa's seven seats in the House of Representatives. To avert a total rout, dejected Democrats are looking to a lone champion, Governor Harold E. Hughes, 46, a craggy-jawed former truck driver who is battling hard to avoid being buried under an anti-Democratic avalanche...