Word: fluke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was the last game of the year for proud Penn under the Munger-Crowther-Odell coaching regime, and although the result was an upset, it was no fluke. The inspired Quakers played the favored Redmen off their feet, and it looks like they intend to continue their victory march this year...
Columbia has been coming fast at the end of the schedule, and the 50 to 45 win which Captain Tom Macioce's boys registered over the Big Green last night was no fluke. They were touted as title contenders at the start of the season, and their strong finish has justified this prediction...
Amos Murphy, gigantic Sophomore, former Connecticut Interscholastic Champion, came through to prove his Freshman record last year was no fluke. Another Sophomore from whom great things are expected is Lyn Brua...
...made the Pitt attack powerful. contributed more than his share to the superb coordination of the "dream backfield." When he was on the sidelines with a leg injury four weeks ago Pitt lost its first game in two years (to Carnegie Tech). Last week it lost again-on a fluke to Duke. Although Duke won the game (7-to-0) on a lucky block of an end-zone punt and got only one first down to Pitt's nine, Wallace Wade's Blue Devils have been so much better than all their other opponents this year they have...
...coach, seeking the cause of the fluke, shifted the strokes and seven men in the two crews, demoting those of the second to the third. Still the third boat won. Two by two he exchanged third crew men for those in the second and when they had all been shifted the men of the original second crew were winning in the third crew's shell...