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Then last winter, at the Arena Christmas Tournament, underdog Harvard held a 5-4 lead with only seven minutes to play. Two-goal performances by Kent Parrot and Bobby Bauer had given the Crimson a shot at the year's biggest upset. But late tallies by Herb Wakabayashi and Fred Bassi and an open-net goal by Serge Boily pulled out a 7-5 Terrier...
Quincy House squeaked by an underdog Winthrop team in overtime, 4-3, yesterday to clinch the House soccer title...
What was so different about the siege of the Pentagon? Here there was real resistance, a fierce kind of underdog, "guerillish" power kept the demonstrators going. Maybe they found out what it was like to be Vietcong. But more significantly, maybe they found out what it is like to be American in a country of a different kind of American. That is a hard thing. But inside, as one Harvard demonstrator said, "it makes you feel unbelievably clean." Said another: "Demonstrations will never be the same. We've turned the Pentagon upside down. Things will never be the same again...
...number of reasons the powerful, awesome campaign that people expected Kevin White to display after the September preliminary elections has failed to develop. A fear that Mrs. Hicks would benefit by being cast as the underdog and a fierce bitterness on the part of some of the unsuccessful candidates has prevented the formation of a clear coalition of unsuccessful Mayoralty candidates, important Massachusetts politicians, and Boston businessmen behind White. While one or two of the unsuccessful candidates have been quietly working with potential contributors and politicians on White's behalf, the failure to achieve public pledges of support from...
...around the world last week, the folks in St. Louis and unreconstructed admirers of expert, well-rounded baseball teams were rooting for the Cardinals. Just about everybody else was discovering why the Red Sox-a 200-to-1 shot for the American League pennant and a 2-to-3 underdog in the Series-had cost Boston its Brahmin cool all summer long. As the Sox, down one game to three, incredibly fought to tie it all up at 3-3, the carillon of Boston's Park Street Church pealed out The Impossible Dream, the city...