Word: underdogs
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...Annapolis, in a wartime version of the once glamorous Army-Navy game, an underdog Navy team routed the touted Army, 14-to-0. Shifted from Philadelphia's vast Municipal Stadium (capacity: 102,000) to little Thompson Field (capacity: 22,000), tickets were limited to people living within ten miles of Annapolis' State House. To take the place of the Army cadets, denied transportation from West Point, half the Annapolis student body was delegated to cheer for the Army. With fingers crossed, they fulfilled their assignment for a while. But when the midshipmen began to tear the Army apart...
...Crimson football who, in the dark days before Comeford-to-Lyle, envisioned an oft-beaten Bulldog as the late November antidote for the early season blues. But Yale has taken full advantage of the masterpiece of confusion in the Eastern football picture, and it will be anything but an underdog Bulldog that will attempt to gain the first Yale victory over Harvard since...
Facing a great deal more difficulty from an underdog Brown eleven than was generally expected, the Varsity soccer team was forced to go into two overtime periods to win, 3-1. At the same time, the newly-formed Jayvee squad subdued the Brown Jayvees...
Early in the first period the underdog Elephants threatened with a drive to the four-yard line, sparked by Dick Chenoweth at fullback and halfbacks Pete Dorsey and Dick Coe. The Bunny line not only held them there, however, but pushed the Elephants back, taking possession of the ball on the eleven-yard line...
...combination of circumstances led to the surprising 2-2 deadlock between the Crimson soccer team and the underdog eleven of Massachusetts State last Saturday at Amherst. Overconfidence was one of the many contributing factors which enabled an improved State eleven to hold a lead late in the fourth quarter, when furious rallies by the Varsity finally knotted the count...