Word: underdogs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Such is the changed political climate of South Dakota that even Joe Foss enters the race as an underdog to a Democrat. George McGovern, 35, himself a World War II B-24 pilot with a Distinguished Flying Cross, is a hard worker and a skilled orator, has since his election in 1956 entrenched his position. As governor, Joe Foss, blamed for rising real estate taxes, won 1956 re-election by only 25,000 votes -and the First District does not include his areas of greatest strength. But Foss's greatest handicap this year is the same that got George...
...cultural image. Actually, Irvine is an emotional neuter except for the heartsickness he feels when Greek mulcts Greek. Spiro, who as an adolescent saw Communists murder his father and mother, regards Irvine's sentimentality about Greece as fatuous. In Spiro's world one cheats to live, and underdog eats underdog...
...undefeated varsity squash team will travel to Williamstown today to meet an underdog Williams squad. Coach Jack Barnaby expects the contest to be the toughest so far this season, however, and warns that a strange court is a powerful leveling factor. The Crimson, 8 to 1 victor over a strong Army team last month, sports a 5-0 record in college play...
...most disastrous season (2 won, 8 lost) since it started playing football in 1887. This season his team had begun by winning four straight, but in the last two weeks they had been beaten twice. For days the campus at South Bend had echoed with pep rallies; the underdog Irish knew that this was the one to win. All through three quarters the hopped-up Irish line hammered at Coach Bud Wilkinson's well-drilled Sooners. For all their consummate fakery, none of Oklahoma's quarterbacks could shake loose on their famed run-pass option play. The lean...
...varsity will be a 13-point underdog this Saturday when it faces a Yale squad which Crimson scouts rate as the Ivy League's top team today...