Word: underdogs
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Clearly the underdog, Tom Bolles' varsity crew will take to the water tomorrow in an attempt to salvage something from a spotty season by turning in a good showing at the University of Washington's invitation regatta on Lake Washington...
...probably be up a tree again, watching Arden's cerise, blue & white colors-and taking anxious side glances at such able rivals as speedy, pint-sized Rippey, big, brown Spy Song and the Calumet Farm's In Earnest (trained by Ben Jones, who delights in running an underdog to victory). And no one knew better than Tom Smith that an unsung hero might well cross the line ahead of them...
...kind of fun to be the underdog-it's a novelty," said Don Budge last week...
Facing its stiffest battle of the year, Coach Johnny Chase's Varsity hockey team takes the ice in the Boston Arena at 8:30 o'clock tonight, a decided underdog against a talented Dartmouth sextet...
With bookies giving the Elis an advantage of anywhere from 12 to 26 points at press time last night, the Harvard eleven finds itself the underdog once again in the first Crimson-Blue struggle since 1942. Ignored by the daily press, consistently under-rated by every so-called expert throughout the nation, labeled "informals" by sportswriter after witty sportswriter, Coach Harlow's 1945 squad has had to prove itself over and over during the season; tomorrow's encounter will be the final and conclusive test...