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...riding on this contest, like the Ivy League title for instance. The defending champion Brown team and the underdog Harvard squad both are unbeaten after five Ivy League contests with one more game after this weekend's battle (Yale at Harvard, Brown at Columbia...
...Crimson is a decided underdog. As the season began, most predictors weren't giving Harvard a chance for much better than a second-to-last place finish...ahead of Columbia, big honor. But after all, they reasoned, here's a team with a first-year coach trying to rebuild from the ashes of a dismal season last year without the outstanding talent that has been the trademark of many of the championship Harvard teams in the past...
...host of opponents, present and past, in an apparently hopeless cause. He was out for revenge against the boxing establishment that had summarily stripped him of his heavyweight title seven years ago for refusing to be drafted. He was fighting the skeptics who rated him a 3-to-1 underdog against Foreman, and the record of recent fights in which, aging and overweight, he had displayed only brief glimpses of his old speed and guile. He was also challenging boxing history; only one other heavyweight, Floyd Patterson, had ever won the championship twice. Finally, Ali, 32, was facing George Foreman...
Most important, don't let members of the team itself know any of this. They might actually start thinking they're really good. They might lose that fighting spirit that comes with being the underdog. Heaven forbid, they might become overconfident...
...underdog, Wilson has begun to show some uncharacteristically sharp teeth. Making crime his top issue, he comes on like Wyatt Earp, promising to clear the streets and subways of muggers and calling Krupsak "soft on crime." He has one clear advantage over Carey. He is much more amply financed than his opponent, who spent most of his funds for television time in the primary. But unless Wilson changes voters' minds with a last-minute TV drive, he is destined to be outgunned by Carey...