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Coach Raynor, attempting to avert a rout, pulled most of his starting team when the score reached 59-34. Bentley responded by switching to an aggressive man-to-man defense which seemed to baffle the Crimson substitutes entering the game anticipating a zone...
...some football-fan bankers compared the President to a quarterback who had thrown a spectacular pass from his own 1-yd. line for a touchdown. Last week it became evident that the quick score only got the Carter Comets back into a game that had been turning into a rout. To win, Carter must now call signals effectively for a long, grind-it-out-on-the-ground drive against the awesome defense of the Inflation Bears...
Since it was beginning to look like the worst rout in these parts since the winter of 1777, no one so much as sneezed when Quaker placekicker John Dwyer booted the extra point wide left on the second touchdown. In fact, though, Dwyer's careless miscue was to make the difference in determining Penn's second-half strategy to push all-out for a touchdown--a strategy that failed three times...
HARVARD at PENN--No Gary Bosnic field goal, no bad refereeing, a beautiful day, and the first Harvard rout of the season. Note: I also voted for Ed Brooke. HARVARD 28, PENN...
...second half, the Tigers were forced to push the ball up the inclined field, and Harvard's superior conditioning turned the game into "kind of a rout," said St. Louis...