Word: underdogs
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...fence badly against bad competition, and that's why I lost," said Tom Keller, number one foil man on Harvard's fencing team after his loss to an underdog Southeastern Massachusetts Technological Institute foilman on Thursday. "You just don't know how a poor fencer will react--whether he will spot your fake and react as you would expect or just stand there...
...Humphrey, the brave and honest fighter who, almost singlehanded, made it from the worst-ever underdog to one-quarter percent from the presidency...
...aboard a Nixon band wagon. Leading pollsters, including Gallup, unequivocally reject the notion that there may be a so-called "band-wagon effect." They cite Hubert Humphrey's dramatic comeback as evidence for their view. Still others feel that the polls may actually have helped Humphrey by generating an "underdog" sympathy vote. Whichever of these effects was dominant, it seems obvious that in an election where only a few hundred thousand votes out of more than eighty million decided the outcome, the polls could have had a telling effect...
...other words, the way to approach this game is with the same scenario in mind that you thought there would be at the beginning of the season. Harvard goes into the Stadium as the underdog spoiler. Let me tell you all the great things that Harvard can spoil...
...Farneti is serious and his explanation is plausible. "I'm a sophomore and every one of these last eight games has been a miracle. This is the same situation we've been in all year," he explains. "We're the underdog and have everything to gain and nothing to lose...