Word: haplessness
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Though the enthusiasts that braved the cold windy weather to watch the game were not rewarded with finesse or a goal-scoring duel, they saw a strong and conditioned Harvard team run all over a weak, often hapless, MIT, giving hints of the jig-saw puzzle that coach George Ford has been quietly piecing together in the last few weeks...
...starting gun sounded, both boats were over early and the Cross took longer to return and restart. The challenger could never catch up and Courageous just kept increasing the lead on the hapless Australians. After the novelty of watching the graceful boats wore off, the race became rather boring. The voice of Hoyt began to lose some of its enthusiasm. "...And the Southern Cross is putting up the same old white bag..." he reported blandly as the Aussies set their white spinmaker after rounding the weather mark well behind the defender...
...which is worse: to be so out of it, like both teams in any contest among the hapless ones--the Padres (41 games out, no less), Giants, Astros, Angels, or Braves--or to be a late-season casualty, a "choke", such as the Redlegs, Phillies, or Bosox. One must wonder if it isn't more fun for Angel fans to go to the park with the idea that their team might chop off the grasping fingers of a club trying to maintain a handhold on first place, than to see a squirming team such as Boston, whose only hustle...
This year figures to be much of the same thing. Dartmouth, coming off a "rebuilding" year, has the material and the winning attitude to do it again. But Harvard, Brown, Yale, Pennsylvania and Cornell have the potential to take all the marbles with a little bit of luck. Only hapless Princeton and Columbia appear out of the title picture. The team outlooks and predicted order of finish...
...stentorian monotone of a spectacles professor rings in your ears, and to escape its ghastly sound you head for the nearest refuge, a bar like Charlie's Kitchen, or perhaps the Ha' Penny. Here, back in a dark corner, you can sip your bourbon in peace, watching other hapless souls with different but no less weighty problems...