Word: underdogs
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Harvard's surprising varsity football team, which was expected to finish in the second division at best, will be the underdog again as it puts its unbeaten record on the line against dangerous Princeton and its single wing offense...
...course continued to show up regularly. Humphrey, long tormented by his low marks among college students but helped by the leadership of organized labor, got a far better reception from kids at Malone College in Canton, Ohio, than among the steelworkers in western Pennsylvania. Though still the underdog, he occasionally allowed his schedule to lapse back into its old inefficiency, so that he sometimes saw more billboards and countryside than voters. Nixon, who had run a precise and frequently leisurely campaign to avoid mistakes born of weariness, was looking-and sounding-a bit tired. He was making occasional small fluffs...
...message across during those early months we're given the message--the old Humphrey record--once again. There's some idle chatter about the year 2000 so we won't mind looking back so often, and all the self-deprecation helps build the ethos of an underdog, gaining momentum all the time, winning this damn election against the longest of odds...
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...game must have been very satisfying for the underdog Dartmouth team. It had jumped off to a 2-0 lead against perennially strong Brown last week, but then lost 6-2. The victory gives the Indians a 1-1-1 Ivy League record, one point behind Harvard...