Word: underdogs
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...opening game last week Brown lost to underdog American International College, coached by former Crimson football player Nick Rod is. The defeat was due in part to the Zone defense which A.I.C. used, and to the loss of Whelan with five minutes left to play...
East of the Mississippi, the weather (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) made footballs take some strange bounces. Gales, snow, sleet, rain and mud-the great levelers-made fumbling bumblers out of All-America candidates, made even the lowliest underdog look good, raised line-smashing fullbacks to an importance never intended for them in the hipper-dipper T-formation system...
...Champaign, underdog Illinois over Ohio State (the team that U.S. sportwriters had just voted best in the country), 14-7. By upsetting the Buckeyes, Coach Ray Eliot's Illini all but clinched the job of representing the Big Ten in the Rose Bowl...
Lloyd Jordan's offensive and defensive strategy recalled to many observers the Harvard-Yale game of 1946 in which Dick Harlow's underdog Crimson team threw a mighty scare into a nationally ranked Yale eleven...
...provided the next great upset in Harvard-Yale history. Yale was undefeated until it reached the Stadium that year, and Richard Cresson Harlow's third Harvard team was definitely the underdog. Harlow had lost his first two Yale games and, when Yale tied the score at six all in the third period, it seemed obvious that Harlow would drop his third straight...