Word: routs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other inter-House game, Adams came back with only one day's rest after its 14 to 14 tie against Dunster to rout Winthrop 8 to 0. The Gold Coasters threatened repeatedly, and their line was constantly in the Coasters backfield. Winthrop's pasting attack, which looked good against Eliot, was throttled by Adams's fast charging ends who frequently nailed the passer for big losses...
...team still in the training stage, the Rhode Island State-Connecticut meet at Franklin Park tomorrow looks like a tough nut to crack. Rhode Island is a school that takes cross country very seriously and this season's team has already crushed Springfield College 20 to 41, a rout in a cross country two-way meet. Connecticut is an unknown quantity, but Jaakko is confident that this meet will give the team the necessary experience to face Dartmouth next week and the Yale-Princeton triangular in a fortnight...
...early stages of the game looked as though the contest would end in a rout for the Crimson. Before ten minutes elapsed Phil Potter, Varsity center forward, slammed in two quick scores. But the red-shirted team from Worcester bounced right back, and before the half ended Joe Hearn, their center forward, kicked in four angle shots, all on quick breaks, and the score stood...
Chuck Luckman ended this rout by plunking out $25,000 to help the druggists lobby the Miller-Tydings Fair Trade Act through Congress. He put in his own form of price control, retaining title to the tubes until they were actually retailed. Then Luckman went on the road to make friends with individual druggists all over the U.S. (he traveled in 51 of his first 52 weeks), learned to call 35,000 druggists by their first names. Result: sales started up. By 1942 Pepsodent was leading the field for the first time. It has never been headed since...
...General sent Tokyo police, armed with short swords, to rout the sit-downers, after issuing a warning: "Physical violence [by] undisciplined elements will not be permitted...