Word: routs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Virginia the previous year and prior to the 1921 Harvard contest had beaten powerhouse Crimson and run several lesser lights into the ground. The day of the game, in fact, the CRIMSON predicted a "battle royal" and 43,000 fans didn't jam the Stadium to see a rout. They didn...
...most versatile exhibitions of passing, running, blocking and kicking ever seen, Kazmaier put on a dazzling one-man show that turned a tight first-half game into a second-half rout. He threw 17 passes, all on the run, and completed an astonishing 15 for a total of 236 yards. He carried the ball 18 times and averaged 7 yards a crack. He personally accounted for 70% of Princeton's gains. He threw three touchdown passes, ran for two more (and added two points for Cornell on a second-half safety). And, when the devastating Princeton offense was slowed...
...Monitoring the Administration: All blocs, including the Fair Dealers, joined in 130-odd congressional investigations, a record in congressional history. Their net effect was to throw light on obscure, muddled Administration policies, and to rout out certain influence peddlers...
...Yankees began to roll. In the fourth game, DiMaggio exploded with a single and a homer. In the fifth, he connected for two singles, setting the stage for Rookie Infielder Gil McDougald's grand-slam homer, and smacked a two-run double that completed the worst World Series rout in 15 years...
Earl Blaik in a post game conference remarked that the game was a good thing for Harvard, a switch on his speech after last year's rout by Army when he said Harvard is good for football. As for the Crimson's opponent of next week, Dartmouth, Blaik, who has played both teams, said merely that "it should be a good game--that's the conventional answer...