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...hockey team will be trying to end a two-game losing streak when it hosts a respectable, but underdog, U. N. H. squad at 8 p. m. tonight at Watson Rink...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Stickmen to Take On Strong Wildcat Squad | 1/14/1971 | See Source »

There are two Ivy League games tonight, one featuring Penn and Cornell at Ithaca. The Quakers are definitely an underdog, but they have been impressive on occasion. At the same time, revitalized Cornell may be looking past Penn to the match with Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickmen to Host Vermont Tonight In Preparation for Cornell Game | 1/6/1971 | See Source »

...fight, turned out in red trunks and white shoes with dangling red tassels ("Bulls don't like red," he explained). Like a matador, he toyed with Bonavena through the early rounds, circling his lumbering opponent and stabbing him with jolting lefts. Oscar, a 6-to-1 underdog, kept wading in, pounding away at the body until, by the eighth round, Ali was noticeably slowed. In the ninth−the round Ali predicted he would knock out Oscar−Muhammad came alive briefly, rocked Bonavena with a stiff right and then was tagged himself by a thunderous left hook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two Down, One to Go | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the Bruins will be a heavy underdog in tonight's 8 p.m. meet against Harvard in the LAB pool. Brown hasn't beaten the Crimson since a one-point victory in 1939, and no amount of new talent which Brown may have will be likely to end Harvard's streak...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Swimmers to Meet Bruins In IAB Sleepers Tonight | 12/16/1970 | See Source »

...Harvard track team is an underdog in a meet against Army today at West Point. The Crimson, which has been bothered by injuries, faces its toughest opponent of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thinclads Oppose West Point Today | 12/12/1970 | See Source »

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