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...ineffective." Harvard had not beaten Princeton in seven long, lean years. Sportswriters throughout the nation were calling the Tigers one of the best teams in the nation, and even the gamblers were reluctant to predict what the final outcome would be when the mighty Orange and Black team met "Hapless Harvard...
...Yale and her Big Three rivals conceived the monster that today is college football then retreated themselves to the palsied field of amateur football, halting only to buy an occasional Big-Time team. Present-day Stadium diehards might also be pleased to learn that from 1938 to 1941 the hapless Yalies won 7 and lost 24 games and still survived. Local readers will also find new background and stories of Crimson great like Percy Haughton who brought Harvard into the national spotlight, and walloped Yale 36 to 0, and 41 to 0 after allegedly strangling bulldog pups to work...
...long after sport-shirted Bill Veeck breezed into St. Louis and bought the hapless Browns, a pointed line was added to the score cards of their Sportsman's Park rivals: ''The Cardinals, a dignified St. Louis Institution." The note was good for a few tired jeers from fans who remembered the Cards' rowdy old Gas House Gang. But it was not the kind of hint to faze Showman Bill Veeck, who operates on the theory that baseball can be the greatest show on earth...
...might be able to box, but he was never a puncher. The boys thought a lot more of Irish Bob Murphy, a redheaded, left-handed brawler who had scored eight knockouts in ten bouts this year. As a 5-to-12 fight-time favorite, Murphy would undoubtedly cut the hapless champ to pieces...
...road, in truth as in ballad, was subject to broad interpretations on the narrow highways of 17th and 18th Century England. Bold Dick Turpin was one, but only one, of a numerous night-errantry that pranced the moonlight lanes about London, hearts high and pistols level, to cry the hapless traffic to Stand and deliver what it had in pocket. "The finest men in England, physically speaking," said Thomas De Quincey, "the very noblest specimens of man, considered as an animal, were the mounted robbers who cultivated their profession of the great roads...