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...Crimson, going into the game with a 2-2-2 record, was rated as underdog to Amherst, which won the Eastern rugby union championship last year. Four Crimson ruggers were out of the game, including Dick Shulman, Harvard Rugby Club president, who is ill with hepatitis...
...Arnold Palmer and Sam Snead: the 34-nation Canada Cup, emblematic of world golf supremacy, at San Isidro, Argentina. Snead and Palmer took a three-stroke first-round lead, held on to beat Argentina by two strokes. - Underdog Georgia Tech: a 7-6 victory over previously unbeaten. No. 2-ranked Alabama. Tech Fullback Mike McNames intercepted a pass in the second quarter, scored two plays later; Quarterback Billy Lothridge kicked the extra point that handed Bear Bryant's Crimson Tide its first loss in 27 games. Wisconsin mowed down Illinois 35-6. needed only to defeat Minnesota...
...survived a G.O.P. gerrymander a decade ago, found his twelve new rural Illinois counties too much ground to cover, lost to freshman Republican Paul Findley. West Virginians seemed to resent all the outside help received by Bailey, an eight-termer, including stumping by Kennedy and Truman. They rallied behind underdog Arch Moore Jr., 39, to give him a 32,000-vote victory despite a 51,000 Democratic registration edge. Santangelo's East Harlem district was knocked out by the legislature, and he never had much chance of dislodging five-term Republican Paul A. Fino in The Bronx...
...Underdog Philip H. Hoff upset incumbent Governor F. Ray Keyser and became the first Democratic governor in 109 years. Republican Senator George D. Aiken was re-elected over W. Robert Johnson, as was Vermont's single Congressional representative...
Republican senatorial nominee George Cabot Lodge '50 and Edward Brooke, nominee for Attorney General and the first Negro to run for state office in Massachusetts, shared the crowd's loudest applause. "Political commentators have cast me as the underdog in the U.S. Senate race because my opponent is the President's brother," Lodge complained. "But," he added to tumultuous applause, "they have underestimated the people of Massachusetts...