Word: routs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much-overworked expression "moral victory", may with some justice be applied to the Crimson team's efforts last night. Doomed to inglorious rout by the pre-game predictions of the wiseacres, the University horsemen came from behind in each of last night's round-robin matches and all but won in both cases. Whether due to natural development or to the sight of blue jerseys on the backs of their opponents, the work of the Crimson players far outshone their earlier efforts. Kent was the particular star of the evening, ably seconded by Stranahan...
...offer the opposition that the Pittsburg Yellow-Jackets would have furnished, Coach O'Hare expects his charges to better their early season showing. The Terriers were completely outclassed by the Crimson skaters when they met on December 18, nineteen Harvard players taking part in the 8 to 1 rout. They showed some improvement, however, in holding Princeton to a 4 to 0 score and some more when the Maple A. A. six gained only a 4 to 1 margin over them. Since this game, which was played two weeks ago, the B. U. skaters have been idle...
What promised in the first period to be an exciting game developed into a rout, and the Harvard Freshman sextet overwhelmed Browne and Nichols 11 to 1 at the Arena yesterday afternoon. The schoolboys held the Crimson to a 2 to 1 score in the first period, but after that it was just a question of how often the pack would land in the net. The outer defense was woefully weak and the goal tender's efforts to check the attack were futile...
...good lady who sought to win the Scientific American prize for ghost raisers by making the quickness of the hand deceive the eye was put to ignominious rout by the forces of science. The fact that William James, the great philosopher and psychologist, sent through her a message to the world written in heliotrope-colored ink was enough to raise some doubt. Furthermore that this message was only a sigh--"How happy I should have been for such an opportunity as this"--instead of further elaborations of his stratum-of-energy theory or his plans for prevention of war must...
When we assail we'll rout them out with cheer and about and we will knot Tiger's tail...