Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the slaughter was over, M.I.T. coach Kirk Randall said of the Crimson netmen, "I think they have a well-balanced team with a lot of depth...
...Communists executed hundreds of civilians during their Tet offensive, but the slaughter was particularly marked in and around Hue, where estimates of those put to death range from 200 to 400. British Journalist Stewart Harris, who opposes U.S. policy in Viet Nam and declares . that "my instinct is not to sustain it by writing propaganda," recently visited Hue and vicinity to investigate the executions. Last week he reported his findings in the Times of London...
Rematch? Mismatch was more like it. By game time, the odds makers had installed U.C.L.A. as an eight-point fa vorite on the strength of a tougher schedule and no losses since the Houston upset. But no one remotely expect ed anything like the slaughter that followed. Attacking from the first tipoff, Coach John Wooden's Bruins outran, outpassed, outshot, and outrebounded the Cougars. Final score: U.C.L.A. 101, Houston...
Five Doubles. When the slaughter was over, the first question was how Houston could ever have beaten U.C.L.A. The second was why the sportswriters could have considered the January game anything but a fluke, a good team catching a great team on a very off night. Without making excuses, U.C.L.A.'s Coach Wooden at the time pointed out that 7-ft. If -in. Lew Alcindor was still seeing double, after an eye injury, that Guard Mike Warren, the team's playmaker, was weak with...
...annual slaughter increased in brutality each year until finally in 1860 the Faculty outlawed its existence. There were, in that year, better ways for Northern gentlemen to vent their spleen. With an air of defiance, a group of players held a funeral service--complete with procession and eulogy for the sport. They dug a grave and buried a pigskin. Football at Harvard was officially dead...