Word: underdogs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard faces Princeton today at 2 o'clock in the Palmer Memorial Stadium, with most of the 60,000 persons watching the game expecting the Tigers to triumph. It is not the first time that a Crimson eleven has gone into a Big Three game decidedly the underdog, and Captain Cheek's men, though the odds are against them, are determined to fight out a victory over the warriors of Nassau...
...clock tonight, 1500 students are expected to rock the building with their cheers for the University eleven. The first mass meeting of the year is expected to find the Harvard student body behind its team, undiscouraged by the fact that the Crimson is regarded as the underdog. A year ago Princeton filled that role and what Princeton did to Harvard will not soon be forgotten. Memories of that contest will evoke the spirit of revenge in tonight's meeting...
Then twenty-one years ago, I came to America. He went to England. Ever since he's been the family thorn, taking the side of every tatterdemalion, every underdog in England...
...game win for the Blue was well within the limits of possibility. As injury and defeat followed each other for Captain Hammond's nine, the odds mounted steadily on the Blue, and if the University is to take the New Haven field on Tuesday anything but the underdog, it will have to show a marked improvement in this week's games...
Last year a much and justly touted Princeton nine came to Cambridge to open the Big Three series. It found a Harvard team with a record that was little better than mediocre, and yet the lowly underdog sent the Tiger home whipped by the score of 7 to 0. Tomorrow, Princeton will again invade the Soldiers Field diamond, once more with a more imposing record than the Crimson's, and again the dopesters pick Harvard to finish second: It will be only a repetition of the same inspired baseball, with a repetition of the shut-out pitching that Spalding displayed...