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...Crimson was shooting last night and there was nothing (except B.U.'s frequent icings) that could stop it. Eleven Crimson skaters figured in the scoring with Tim Taylor, the team's high-scorer, and Bill Beckett netting two goals apiece. Others with two points during the rout were center Gene "Kimo" Kinasewich with a goal and an assist and defenseman Ron Thompson with two assists...
Clarkson pressed hard in the third period and Bland had to be brilliant on several occasions to keep the game from turning into a rout...
...Three championship and a tie with Columbia for the Ivy crown. Princeton missed its shot at the Ivy title by bowing to Dartmouth 24-6. In the Big Ten, Minnesota lost its chance for the conference title when Wisconsin upset it 23-21. With a crunching 50-20 rout of Michigan, second-ranked Ohio State earned the Big Ten title and a probable trip to the Rose Bowl to meet U.C.L.A., which put on the Big Five crown after a 10-7 win over U.S.C. Elsewhere, the bowl line-up was shaping up as expected. Fourth-ranked L.S.U. walloped Tulane...
...mighty man of valor" chosen to lead his people to victory. The comic incongruity of the choice is heightened by Gideon's initial appearance as a kind of donkeyfied village dolt. The Angel, who is, in effect, the Lord, lays down a plan by which 300 Israelites will rout and slay 120,000 Midianites...
...other words, for the Tory radicals who managed to rout the opposition to Britain's entry into the Common Market, Brighton was a strangely unsatisfactory victory. Progressives who wanted reassurance that they were at last in charge never got it from the delegates. Nor, if they looked to their basilisk Prime Minister and his cryptic Cabinet changes, could they find it there either...