Word: underdogs
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Penn, dethroned by Navy last year after two years as champion. Another young crew, with only two seniors, and stroked by sophomore Walt Updegrave. A dangerous underdog, rowing on its home course...
Ullrich states the same thing for the record, although it is a little difficult to believe that any Academy team is that detached about a major championship in which it is an underdog, however slight. The Brigade goes bananas at wrestling matches, f'crissake, so it's reasonable to assume that they don't care for the idea of a bunch of long-haired Harvard dudes wearing crisp new Academy betting shirts around The Square...
Agnew kept faith with the American dream. A civilian again, he began to find himself as an underdog representing other underdogs. Negotiating contracts for AFL-CIO butchers as well as for black fishermen in Chesapeake Bay, he became a labor lawyer to warm the bleeding heart of any liberal...
Harvard will start off its singles competition at a disadvantage. Harvard's number one, sophomore Harris Masterson, is a distinct underdog to Dartmouth co-captain Lloyd Ucko, who boasts an 8-1 record and who went undefeated on the Southern trip...
...underdog presidential candidate need not become disheartened even though he runs far behind the leaders in the national public-opinion polls. Often such polls bear no resemblance at all to the outcome of individual state primaries...