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...Crimson will be a slight underdog in the battle for the number one ranking in New England, but Yale coach Bert Waterman has referred to the Crimson several times as "as strong a team as any in the Ivy League...
Prior records will mean little in today's contest: in fact, Penn may relish its underdog role. Last year the Quakers boasted having the finest collegiate squash team in years, but the Crimson embarrassed Penn badly with a lopsided 6-3 victory on the Quakers home turf. Penn hadn't lost at the Rindge courts in five years...
...Terriers may not have lived up to their advance billing, but they are still the only team in the East that cannot be termed an underdog against Harvard. B.U.'s power play has not been awezome this year, and no team can match the Crimson's Local Line, but B.U. has three fast, balanced lines and outstanding defensemen in All-American Bob Brown and Ric Jordan. Brown is third in B.U. scoring with 31 points...
Harvard's wrestling team has lost the services of two top starters and will be a heavy underdog in its match with Navy Saturday at the Academy...
...polls; 80% of the qualified electorate cast ballots. Nor did voters take seriously President Ferdinand Marcos' claims that Liberal-aided Communist insurgents were about to overthrow the government. In a stinging personal defeat for Marcos and a severe setback for his ruling Nacionalista Party, the voters gave the underdog Liberals six of the eight contested Senate seats-the only national offices at stake -as well as the Manila mayoralty. Marcos' party did considerably better in some 15,000 local and provincial races, but many of them were uncontested...