Word: underdogs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Holy Cross will be favored to defeat the University baseball tean at Fitton Field in Worcester when the Crimson and Purple clash in the second and final game of the series today. Any college team playing the Crusaders is the underdog these days, and with one victory over Harvard already to its score the Worcester nine will be doubly favored in the game that is scheduled to get under way at 3 o'clock this afternoon...
...Lawyer Darrow had again gilded his unique reputation by securing an acquittal against heavy odds, emphasizing by repetition his statement that "courts are cockpits in which lawyers may fight." There is a peculiar consistency in his defense of the hopelessly lost, of the rich and poor alike, of the underdog who is under because of inexorable gyrations of fate, which indicates that his motives are of noble origin. Or perhaps the grey and stooped veteran laughs behind his ugly face when he sees the jury succumbing to his harangue...
...pictures, I saw recently that he himself wants one of Gandle, and if he admits that he doesn't know what the hero of his own book looks like what right has he to talk of what out student body should look like. Of course this defending the underdog is lots of fun. I go in for it once in a while myself. But Harvard has no more need of being completely Semitic than she has of being completely Celtic. Being an American university Harvard must be a synthesis of various types, or better of various individuals--all of which...
Harvard Desperate Underdog...
...last minute shifting of Chauncey to the first team shows conclusively that Harvard is the underdog today, and a desperate underdog at that. To start in an important game a Sophomore who has not even played in a minor contest is a most unusual decision. It shows that the coaches have great faith in Chauncey, who has been hampered by an injured ankle all fall...