Word: underdogs
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Boston's influx of sailors arriving for Navy Day will be swelled tomorrow when a powerful team from the New London Submarine Base takes the field against the underdog Crimson at 2:30 o'clock in Harvard Stadium...
Public opinion at this point seems, as always, to favor the underdog, and leading figures all over the Chahles Rivab Coastline were issuing statement hoping that the News could avoid a slaughter running perhaps as high...
Each Fridolinons is rich in chorines, costumes, tunes. But what draws the crowd is Author-Producer-Monologuist Fridolin himself. The grubby get-up expresses one side of Fridolin's appeal-the wistful urchin, the Chaplinesque underdog who fights for causes that can never succeed, and makes love to girls he can never win. The slingshot expresses the other half of his appeal - the impudent nose-thumber who (at Bob Hope speed) lets fly at bingo, dance bands, radio advertising, women in war plants - and the Mackenzie King Government...
...spring term Haines has been holding practice sessions in the tank at Newell Boathouse, which has been opened for the first time in 13 months. This conditioning will continue for two weeks, after which the crews will start work on the river. The Crimson will again operate as an underdog this year, since Navy has been rowing on the water during the winter months, and M.I.T. has practically the same crew as raced last spring...
...themselves much the best of it, as always, they devised a complicated give-&-take point system of basketball betting: if the odds on a game were 6-to-8, the better gave the bookie eight points if he wanted the favorite, got only six points if he wanted the underdog-but when the final score was "in the middle" (seven points difference), as five of this winter's 26 games in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden had ended, the bookies made a clean sweep of all bets. Any man with a mind to do some fixing could...