Word: underdogs
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Hoping to offset their defeat at the hands of the Princeton Tigers last Saturday, the Varsity booters will take on an underdog M.I.T. eleven on the soccer field behind the Business School at the new time of 3:30 instead of 4 o'clock as originally scheduled...
Toch has been defeated several times this season and is therefore a distinct underdog, but the booters have taken no chances of losing through overconfidence as they prepare for the contest...
Before 1200 enthusiastic undergraduates at last night's pre-game rally, Coach Dick Harlow not only solicited sideline support but injected a shot of confidence in his underdog eleven by reminding them that their pigskin predecessors in 1937 ran the high-riding Princeton Tiger into the dirt with a savagery that made them forget they were supposed to lose...
...outstanding compliment of my coaching career came out in New York news print the morning after my underdog squad trounced Princeton 34 to 6 in '37, when one sports writer commented on the way 'the Harvard backs sped to victory behind blocking that was absolutely savage...
...this is also the year that the Cadets have their best chance to win, at least according to the betting odds, for at the present time West Point is a 7 to 2 favorite. Every team likes to go into a game as the underdog, but that is one thing the Crimson will not have to worry about this afternoon...