Word: underdogs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard can certainly skate with B.U., as it proved in last December's 4-4 tie on B.U.'s home ice, but the Terriers' well-oiled power play (and Harvard's lack of one) are enough to make the Crimson the underdog. Harvard goalie Joe Bertagna will not be able to afford his habit of leaving fat rebounds for the opposition, and the defense will have to tighten up its recent sloppy play if Harvard is to stay with B.U. tonight...
...fourth team in the tournament, UNH, is a real underdog. The Wildcats have a high scoring line in Gordie Clark, John Gray and Guy Smith (they scored three of UNH's four goals in the Wildcats' upset over Harvard), but their three freshmen defensemen are weak. UNH upset Penn, 5-3, in the quarters to finish in the top four for the first time ever, but Cornell should have little trouble keeping them out of the finals...
...approach the rather bloodless monochromes, the complex intellectuality that produced his early Cubism. Possessing, too, a heart that bled for humanity, he turned not only to the art, but also to the politics of the avant-garde, to Communism. He painted his sympathy for the political or social underdog in shades of mournful blue and used the fragmented vision of his Cubism to illustrate the emotional chaos generated by the bombing of the small fishing-town Guernica...
...Crimson will be a slight underdog in the battle for the number one ranking in New England, but Yale coach Bert Waterman has referred to the Crimson several times as "as strong a team as any in the Ivy League...
Prior records will mean little in today's contest: in fact, Penn may relish its underdog role. Last year the Quakers boasted having the finest collegiate squash team in years, but the Crimson embarrassed Penn badly with a lopsided 6-3 victory on the Quakers home turf. Penn hadn't lost at the Rindge courts in five years...