Word: rout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly half of last year, he was a bench warmer, a green sophomore just up from the plebes, watching and learning from his elders. At last, Navy Coach Wayne Hardin waved him into a grinding, scoreless duel against Cornell. In 23 minutes of play, Staubach turned it into a rout, passing for one touchdown, running for two others. That was enough for Hardin. Staubach was his boy. When Navy played mighty Southern California, the nation's No. 1 team, the point spread was 17; Navy lost, but in a 13-6 squeaker. And then came Army. "If we have...
...Alabama's Joe Namath, 20, is one of those oak-legged Pennsylvania steel-country lads who sifted through 52 college offers before settling on a choice. As a sophomore last year, he announced his arrival at Alabama by flinging three TD passes in the opening game 35-0 rout of Georgia, wound up leading the Southeastern Conference in passing with 76 completions and 1,192 yds., topped off the season by passing for Alabama's first touchdown in a 17-0 victory over Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl. This year, Alabama casually clobbered Georgia (32-7), Tulane...
Like Snow White after she was kissed by Prince Charming, the Harvard offense suddenly rejoined the living late in the third period Saturday when Rutgers safety man Chester Ward graciously fumbled a punt on his own 24. A dull, bruising stand-off was quickly turned into a rout and the Crimson scored three times within 12 minutes to crush the Scarlet Knights...
...temporary restraining order to be issued against Wallace and his state police. The five, all Southerners, agreed. Swiftly, federal marshals fanned out in Alabama to serve the restraining order on the troopers and the Governor himself. Closeted in the statehouse in Montgomery, Wallace ordered his National Guardsmen to rout out the marshals, who were deployed on the capitol grounds waiting for him to come out. Then followed a comic-opera scene, with helmeted and bayonet-carrying guardsmen flushing sheepish marshals out of the bushes and sending them on their...
...very muzzles of the guns. But they met men who were their equals in spirit and their superiors in tenacity. There never was better fighting since Thermopylae than was done yesterday by our infantry and artillery . . ." In the end, the Union defenses held, and the rebels were sent into rout. For Timesman Wilkeson, there was glory, but little pleasure in victory. At the height of battle, he had found the crushed body of his son, 19-year-old Lieut. Bayard Wilkeson, a Union artillery man. "My pen is heavy," he wrote that night. "Oh, you dead, who at Gettysburgh have...