Word: underdogs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Charles ("Swede") Risberg, 81, one of eight Chicago White Sox players accused of throwing the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds in the celebrated "Black Sox" scandal; in Red Bluff, Calif. After the best-of-nine series, which the underdog Reds won 5-3, several White Sox players told a Chicago grand jury that they had intentionally played poorly after gamblers plied them with bribes (up to $10,000) and threatened their families. A trial jury later acquitted eight players, including Shortstop Risberg and Outfielder Joe ("Say it ain't so, Joe") Jackson, of conspiracy charges...
Things didn't look any better when, on the ensuing series, Harvard quarterback Jim Kubacki overthrew two open receivers and managed a one yard gain on third down necessitating a Crimson punt. Harvard fans had witnessed this scenario all too many times before. An underdog Dartmouth squad, super-psyched, outplaying an overanxious Crimson team that was making costly mistakes...
...psychological, this game of Ivy League football. And in that category, it is Dartmouth which holds the edge over all. Harvard may win today, but it will take an incredible effort. More than anything else, the Big Green thrives on being an underdog...
...turned over, and shaken like a dusty carpet--and when the air clears we can say for certain that a part of our lives will never again be the same. And that is what is being said by the small, but ever increasing stream of visitors to the Underdog on Bow Street: visitors who, as often as not came to order a Kosher frank, and stayed to play Wizard...
Yale last year had one of its finest teams ever, and by right should have been 9-0 had not an underdog Harvard team thrown a monkey wrench into the Elis' dreams...