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...first time this year, the Harvard Rugby Club enters a game as a definite underdog...
Poor Little Mexican. Gonzalez, a suave stumper who likes to drop tidbits from classical literature into his speeches, bore down heavily on his pocho (Mexican born in the U.S.) background, tried hard to represent himself as an underdog. It was a difficult ploy-especially in a district that has a large Mexican-American population and that hasn't sent a Republican to Congress since 1920-until Dwight Eisenhower arrived to stump for Goode. Then Gonzalez opened the tear ducts: "They brought down their big 50-megaton bomb to drop on this poor little Mexican...
...mired in ankle-deep mud, was beaten by hard-nosed Purdue (9-0). Resurgent Notre Dame, which had lost only to Michigan State, fell to Northwestern's pinpoint passing attack (12-10). Navy, rated the East's best team with four straight victories, lost 28-14 to underdog Pitt. Army was upset by West Virginia (7-3), and Maryland was surprised by South Carolina 20-10. But other powerhouses continued to roll. Second-ranked Mississippi overwhelmed Vanderbilt 47-0. Ohio State ground out a 30-2! win over scrappy Wisconsin to remain unbeaten and move into a three...
Dartmouth, Eastern Rugby Union champion last year, is rated by experts as probably the best team in America, if not in the world. Harvard, fresh from its 6-3 victory ever M.I.T. Wednesday, its second consecutive win, is a slight underdog...
...York City, with its 3-to-1 Democratic registration, Lefkowitz remained an underdog against Wagner. But his campaign got a boost from the New York Times* which, having backed Wagner in the Democratic primary in September, now found that "Lefkowitz offers the prospect of something better than Wagner, maybe much better-a possibility of great improvements against the near certainty of continued mediocrity...