Word: underdogs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after hot dogs, the Square offers two restaurants devoted to them. Newly opened (and prone to flooding on rainy days) is the Underdog (6 Bow St.), which has kosher dogs with assorted garnishes. The Underdog also has good bagels with cream cheese and lox. Zum Zum (9 Brattle St.), part of a small East Coast chain, serves knackwurst, bratwurst and bauernwurst, with very tasts potato salad. The dark beer is really good...
...Bruins have had trouble maintaining leads against the Rangers. The Rangers, thriving on their underdog status, tied the first game after falling behind 5-1, but lost, and won the fifth game after trailing 2-1. New York's biggest problem has been winning the close ones--three times losing to Boston by one goal margins...
MCGOVERN plans to do well where he thinks he can-Ohio, Michigan, Nebraska-and play a dramatic end game with victories in Oregon, California and New York. "It's the classic underdog strategy," says Ted Van Dyk, a former Humphrey aide who is now a McGovern adviser. "It's also General Giap's battle plan. You concentrate your forces at the point of the enemy's weakness. You pick your battlegrounds." That has led him, wisely and conveniently, to stay out of Southern contests that could have set him back...
Penn, dethroned by Navy last year after two years as champion. Another young crew, with only two seniors, and stroked by sophomore Walt Updegrave. A dangerous underdog, rowing on its home course...
Ullrich states the same thing for the record, although it is a little difficult to believe that any Academy team is that detached about a major championship in which it is an underdog, however slight. The Brigade goes bananas at wrestling matches, f'crissake, so it's reasonable to assume that they don't care for the idea of a bunch of long-haired Harvard dudes wearing crisp new Academy betting shirts around The Square...