Word: underdogs
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...this is doing Harlow no good in his attempts to keep, Harvard the pre-game underdog, a position in which it was fairly easy to keep the Crimson when inkslinger Egan and his ilk were on the other side of the fence. Up to this year's Dartmouth game, the quartet which, isn't in the backfield, of Gardiner, Miller, Peabody, and Pfister, were regarded as likeable chaps, capable of playing steady football, but scarcely in the light in which their Herculean feats of the last two Saturdays have placed them...
...well known fact that Harlow will do anything short of losing a game the preceding Saturday to make his eleven the underdog for the next contest on the schedule, and certainly the fact that Loren MacKinney will not play Saturday won't make it harder for the Crimson's venerable oologist to attain his goal...
...Flung Huey, the sage, goes south for the day and, mint julep in hand, predicts a hard fought win for the underdog Tulane tornado over Denny Myers' revamped B. C. sugarbowlers...
Peck speaks no Thai, and his China lore will be no asset to him in Thailand. The Thai people love the Chinese about the way a County Cork Irishman loves the British. Like the Irish, Thailanders are not impressed by the bold, underdog fight their neighbors are putting up against the Axis...
...offer some leadership toward a more constructive and more lasting peace than Versailles. The Church's idea is, of course, Christ, but beyond that it seems, as interpreted, to have some sort of resemblance to the doctrines of Karl Marx-some sort of new Christian materialism for the underdog...