Word: underdogs
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...varsity hockey team will undergo its first test tonight when it meets Northeastern University, which is rated an underdog by pre-season speculation, at 9 p.m. in the Boston Garden...
...ever given his salty heart more satisfaction. Bull bounced around like a midshipman, congratulating every man on the Navy squad. Navy Secretary Charles S. Thomas and Rear Admiral Walter Boone, Annapolis superintendent, did some backslapping of their own. This, after all, was the Army-Navy game-and the underdog middies had left the field on the long end of a 27-20 score...
...regret--the first was pleasant if non-essential, the second important if not indispensable, the third, at this particular point indispensable. And thus, with a nod and a shiver at this good Yale team and its huge line, it would appear that for the second successive season an underdog Crimson team will upset the Bulldogs...
Thus the Crimson enters the game much the same as it did against Cornell and Princeton in the fortunate position of being an underdog, yet being at least equal to the opposition...
...Successes. Sooner or later, all the form charts got fouled up. The prognosticators are learning all over again that the one-platoon game gives every underdog a chance. Colleges that cannot afford to beat the bushes for hordes of burly ballplayers can hold their own if they can sign up a small squad of good men. The limited-substitution rule keeps the football factories from beating them down with sheer manpower. The G.I.'s, dependable veterans who could be counted on for a polished performance every Saturday, are all gone. In their place, some of the best teams...