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...production-line football ruining the game? The 84,000 people who sat in on Indiana's rout didn't seem to think so. Michigan, using one squad for offense and another for defense, made 300 line-up changes during the game. The unlimited substitution rule made it all legal. At West Point, where the two-platoon system is well established, the offense and defense units practice on different fields, learn different sets of signals. Nobody denies that it is the most efficient way of running a football squad. What a rebellious contingent of coaches wanted to know...
Mukden was lost. The Nationalist withdrawal had turned into a rout. As Communist troops took over the government's main Manchurian stronghold last week, Nanking received the radio message: "No more reports. Cannot get out of office. Goodbye." Nationalist planes began to bomb the city...
Dartmouth's two and one record--a strong but losing opener against Penn a decisive victory over Holy Cross, and a rout of Colgate--indicate that the photographer who handled these Big Green stars individually had a much easier time than the Crimson will have this afternoon in the Stadium when they try to handle them all at once...
...headlines hate to use a quiet word when a violent one will do. One day last week the Denver Post, refusing to admit defeat in its football headlines, found 32 ways of avoiding it: Blast, batters, murder, pastes, whip, crush, wreck, jolt, outscraps, spanks, rolls over, romps over, upsets, rout, toy, dump, bows to, tumbles, drops, trip, tops, sinks, buries, belts, wallops, wins, blanks, licks, trounces, subdues, turns back, edges...
...true liberal convictions whose worry over the state of the world has caused them to lean to a third party ... I say to those disturbed liberals . . . think again. Don't waste your vote. This is the hour for the liberal forces of America to unite . . . Together we can rout the forces of reaction once again...