Word: underdogs
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...with hollow sunken cheeks [whose] manner reveals the sort of fawning servility that princes like." All his adult life, Andersen oscillated between vanity and self-abnegation, pride and humility. He was a Christian who rejected the main dogmas of religion, a generous miser, a snob 'who championed the underdog. If contrast described his psyche, irony defined his life. Like Conan Doyle, whose Sherlock Holmes entertainments outlasted his "serious" work, Andersen was to see his poetry, novels and travel books fade and his trivia be come immortal...
With only a tough loss to Brown the week before to mar its Ivy record, the underdog Harvard squad took on what was then considered to be one of the finest teams in the nation (and that's the truth) in a quest for a share of the Ivy League crown. The last three and a half minutes of The Game, as everybody knows by now, were classics in Ivy history...
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...