Word: underdogism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard, one of the contenders. Harvard, the leader three weeks ago, the underdog Saturday. Harvard, psyched out of its mind, ready to defy the oddsmakers who made the Crimson a ten-point underdog, ready to make up for last year's 21-7 loss inflicted upon it by these same Elis at the Stadium...
Dalton has outspent Howell 4 to 1. running up a campaign bill of some $1.2 million. Says Howell, a slight underdog in the latest polls: "We're up against money. It's their only strength, but it still talks." So does Elizabeth Taylor, who has been stumping for Dalton in a dress rehearsal for Sixth Husband John Warner's expected Senate run next year...
...fleeting moment in motion picture history, and no subsequent bomb can ever take that away from him. While the corny script does wear on your nerves at times, the film is chock-full of can't-miss scenes, and Rocky might restore your dwindling faith that the Underdog still has a chance in this world...
Then, of course, here is the fact that history repeats itself. Remember, this is 1975 redux. Dartmouth comes to Cambridge and is beaten. An underdog Princeton team comes to Cambridge and upsets the home team, which is then so demoralized that it travels to Providence and destroys Brown. And while it won't be 45-26 today, it will again, like the past few years, be a big game...
...Underdog Holy Cross had stormed back to tie it after trailing, 14-0, early in the game, and appeared on the verge of winning in the closing minute. Reserve Crusdader quarterback Pete Colombo connected on a fourth-and-thirteen bomb to Chuck Mullen with 0:33 remaining, setting up a first-and-ten situation at the Dartmouth...