Word: underdogs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...booboo piled upon booboo. it was apparent that these were two spooked teams. Both were desperately seeking vindication, the Colts for their humiliating 16-7 loss to the underdog New York Jets in the 1969 Super Bowl, the Cowboys for blowing two league and two conference title games in the past four years. What they achieved was 60 minutes of chaotic excitement in which supposed strengths became weaknesses...
...Terrell's style, but he still enjoys humiliating his opponent, and Harvard will definitely not be humiliated this winter. In fact, with the Crimson's strength at the bottom positions and the undefeated records of Briggs and Dave Fish at the top two positions, Harvard is no longer the underdog...
During the past five seasons, Baltimore amassed a brilliant 57-15 record, the best of any team in the National Football League. But the only thing that people remember is their embarrassing 16-7 loss to the underdog New York Jets in the 1969 Super Bowl. This season, transferred to the American Football Conference in the newly reorganized N.F.L., the Colts have had to live with the charge that they sneaked into the playoffs only because they were in the league's weakest division. Even hometown fans seem unimpressed; when the Colts defeated the Cincinnati Bengals...
...hockey team will be trying to end a two-game losing streak when it hosts a respectable, but underdog, U. N. H. squad at 8 p. m. tonight at Watson Rink...
There are two Ivy League games tonight, one featuring Penn and Cornell at Ithaca. The Quakers are definitely an underdog, but they have been impressive on occasion. At the same time, revitalized Cornell may be looking past Penn to the match with Harvard...