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Harvard was an underdog twink last year in the indoor meet, but the Crimson mauled the soldiers by 34 points...
...might succeed on both counts. Griffin, 42, a five-term Congressman who was hardly better known than Ferency before Romney appointed him to the Senate seat vacated by the death last April of Democrat Pat McNamara, began as the decided underdog in the race against former six-term (1949-60) Governor "G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, 55. After a costly primary vic tory, however, Old Pro Williams found his campaign coffers somewhat depleted, was further slowed by a kidney-stone operation in August. For his part, Griffin manages to sound every bit as liberal as Soapy, and has proved particularly effective...
...balance, it looks like a close game, and certainly a vital one for Harvard on the path to the League crown. Princeton is a three-point underdog, but the Tigers feel that they are a different team than the one that lost to Dartmouth and Colgate, and almost to Columbia, early in the season. But the Crimson smarts from losing to Princeton for two years running, and will be fiercely protective of that big, fat 6-0 record...
While the party pros were right in appraising Rolvaag as less than charismatic, they failed to see that he is a very easy man to feel sorry for. By re-entering the race, Rolvaag became a courageous underdog fighting the undemocratic party leadership. Still his campaign would never have succeeded had his opponent been anyone but lieutenant governor Sandy Keith -- a perfect villain for the drama...
...national office. Then, last July, his constituents learned that Hatfield had re fused for the second year running to support a motion endorsing the Administration's Viet Nam policy at the annual Governors' Conference. As the cam paign began, it was clear that he was the underdog in a campaign that no one had previously thought he could lose...