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Harvard, which seems to be relishing its underdog status, has been further inspired by reports of Penn's overconfidence and some comments by Quaker coach Bob Seddon about the Crimson defense. "They've been saying we have the worst fullback line in the league, fullback and captain Ric Scott said yesterday, and it is rather foolish. Their overconfidence is something we are trying to cultivate" he added. With the added incentive of revenging last year's 52 loss to Penn in Philadelphia, the team should have no trouble getting up for today's game. This game means...
Guys and Dolls. A Damon Runyon character once bet 5 to 1 for the underdog "Harvards" over the "Yales" in the New London crew races because he figured nothing in life had odds much better than 5 to 4. The irresistable folk of Runyon's Manhattan underworld gang-up with Frank Loesser's superb songs to make this a musical offer no audience could refuse...
OCTOBER is the month of the underdog, the time for a candidate who is trailing badly to make his most serious bid. This George McGovern is doing, but the bid does not seem strong enough. According to the latest poll conducted for TIME by Daniel Yankelovich Inc., the Democratic candidate has narrowed the gap with President Nixon, but has regained only the ground lost since the disastrous aftermath of the Eagleton affair. He remains far behind...
...season's opener against the underdog Buffalo Bills, a team that almost always plays its best against New York, Namath ran a carefully modulated game, passing only 14 times as he set up his running attack. Joe Willie did manage one touchdown strike to Halfback Emerson Boozer as the Jets won, 41-24. Then came the Baltimore Colts -now rivals of the Jets in the Eastern Division of the N.F.L.'s American Conference-who had beaten the Jets four times since the dramatic Super Bowl confrontation. Playing for the first time in Baltimore's cavernous Memorial Stadium...
...road McGovern divides his time furiously between straight politicking, interviews, rebuilding the fractured Democratic Party, and meetings with potential financial backers. Nixon, straight and stiff, shielded from critics and hecklers, launches into his stereotyped appeals that suggest personal discipline, patriotism and work. McGovern, the underdog, is looser and improvisational. Both men talk and move in different worlds. Nixon's is the White House and continuity-McGovern's is change and challenge...