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Dartmouth people don't care much about the sport, so this meet is an annual rout. Coach Bill McCurdy often takes a skimpy squad on the long bus ride and lets the boys with classes stay here in Cambridge...
...eleven returning lettermen. Cornell's interior defensive line averages a hefty 236, anchored by 300-pound tackle Craig Cannon. Princeton's Cornell's Marty Sponaugle and Princeton's Ron Landeck can both run and pass well, neither is a superstar who could turn the game into a one-sided rout...
...WORD SURGERY, the process of creating words by eliminating letters from longer words, is epitomized in one surprising sentence: "Show this bold Prussian that praises slaughter, slaughter brings rout." Now eliminate the first letter of each word and read what remains...
...Sept. 14, the Serbs began the breakthrough in the mountains west of the Vardar River. Backed by the French, they punched a gaping 20-mile hole in the Bulgarian defenses. The Bulgarian retreat turned to a rout under strafing by R.A.F. machine gunners. Blue-turbaned Moroccan cavalry, under French officers, carried out what was perhaps the last great cavalry march of European warfare, advancing 57 miles in six days across craggy, wild Balkan mountains to seize the chief enemy bastion of Skoplje. In Paris, Winston Churchill later recalled, "it was recognized at once that the end had come." Six weeks...
...heavyweight race should be another rout. M.I.T. and Navy are seeded second and third, and they both disappeared behind the Crimson's second boat during regular season competition...