Word: underdogs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consecutive defeat for the Crimson. Since 1922, when the University broke a four year Elli winning streak by a seven point margin, some of the closest meets on record have gone to the Blue. Two years ago Captain W. L. Tibbetts '26 led a fighting team rated as the underdog to a heroic effort which ended with Yale holding a 67 2-3 to 67 1-3 margin...
Boston's baseball fan is thumbing his nose at the fan of Manhattan. For some ten years Boston, both in the American and National League, has been a clumsy underdog. When potent baseball players came to Boston they were soon sold to stronger teams. Boston has been in or near the baseball cellar long enough to be smeared with the damps and cobwebs of depression. Last week, in one of the most astounding trades in the intricate business annals of the game, Rogers Hornsby, some say the greatest second baseman of all time, went to Boston in exchange...
...Crimson squad enters the game as the underdog, having suffered several defeats, while Andover enters the game with a clean slate. A comparison of the previous games favors Andover, for the Academy beat Tabor 3-1, while Tabor downed the Crimson Freshmen 2-1, and both Andover and the Freshmen defeated Dean Academy...
...French, the English, the Italians and the defeated Turks were perpetually rowing with one another&$151;usually at the expense of the Turks. Admiral Bristol, fair-play fighter, settled a good many of the rows by the intervention of his keen, strong personality-very often on the side of underdog Turks...
...Crimson's defeat at the hands of Geneva last Saturday and several injuries sustained during the week have combined to turn the opinion of experts in favor of the Purple in today's clash but the history of University teams which have triumphed after entered gridiron, contests as the underdog is too well known to allow even the most rabid Purple supporter to be too sanguine on the result of today's game...