Word: rout
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...prediction record this fall has shown about as much forenight as Custer did before he rode out to see what the Indians were up to at Little Big Horn. I picked Harvard to rout UMass, and Harvard was routed. I picked Cornell to beat Harvard, and Harvard bombed Cornell. I picked Harvard to whip Penn, and Penn whipped Harvard. I picked Harvard to crush Princeton, and you guess it. I did accurately pick Harvard to beat B.U., Columbia, and Brown but Columbia and Brown are the two worst teams in the Ivy League, and B.U. has its worst team...
Felix Adedeji, whose disappointing reason can be traced to muscle spasms in his back suffered after the Columbia game a month ago, will rout this weekend in Cambridge for the Columbia's stretch drive. Adedeji, despite this health problems, remains tied with Bent Hinze for second place in the scoring derby with seven points...
Coupled with Penn's rout of Harvard, the weekend action leaves the Elis in first place with a 3-1 record, while the Crimson and Dartmouth are deadlocked for the second slot with 2-1-1 marks...
...illusions about the prospects of victory through Vietnamization in that time frame were shattered by the successes of Hanoi's Easter offensive this year, when only American air strikes prevented a South Vietnamese rout. For both sides, those battles seemed to mark an acquiescence, or at least a war-weary recognition of military stalemate, making the negotiations, stymied by the demands of both sides for so long, at last a more promising out. And finally, the bargain across the table was struck between Hanoi and Washington...
...last round's most significant game may prove to be Harvard's surprising rout of Cornell. Cornell, last year's co-Ivy champs, are now in a shaky position to repeat the honor...