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Word: underdogs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Earlier in the season Munro said, "I wish we were the underdog in every game we played." Coach Stevenson is playing that advantage to the hilt at Brown, so much in fact that Munro's wish may be fulfilled...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Ivy Title at Stake Booters Will Try Today to Finish Brown's Six-Year Ivy Soccer Reign | 11/15/1969 | See Source »

...Princeton has many attributes that don't fit the underdog role and could very easily make it the star of the show. Although the Tigers are winless in the Ivy League, their overall record is 5-3-1. Included in that record is a 7-0 victory over Swarthmore, a team that powerful Penn could only edge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Adopts Role of Spoilers Against Unbeaten Crimson Booters | 11/8/1969 | See Source »

While Lindsay goes into today's election the front-runner, he was considered the underdog at the campaign's outset. Procaccino, who won the Democratic primary with less than a third of the vote against four liberals-Former Mayor Robert Wagner. Badillo, Norman Mailer and Congressman James Schener-saw his initial strength erode quickly over the summer and fall. Political columnists blame his apparent decline on his failure to make any reconciliatory gesture to his party's disaffected middle-class liberals, his inability to branch out beyond the law-and-order issue, and his "hot" image in the recent three...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Major Cities Vote Today | 11/4/1969 | See Source »

...Marchi were to do now what Vito Batista did for him at primary's end-mainly stand aside in the interests of unseating Lindsay-the Mayor would again become the underdog against Procaccino...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: John Lindsay at the Crossroads | 11/3/1969 | See Source »

Varsity soccer coach Bruce Munro will face an unsolvable problem today when the Crimson meets Cornell at Ithaca. "I hate being the favorite. I'd much rather we were always the underdog." Munro said...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Varsity Booters Oppose Cornell Today; Coach Munro Prefers Role of Underdog | 10/18/1969 | See Source »

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