Word: underdogs
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...struggle was on again. The Washington Post said that the decision would "perpetuate the enormous powers" of labor racketeers. Unless Congress legislated directly, it looked as if the Court had passed a miracle: that onetime underdog Labor would be transmogrified into a sacred...
None other than Cornell's Big Red basketball team will be the main athletic attraction tonight in the Indoor Athletic Building when it tangles with Captain Franny Simpson's traditional underdog five. As an added feature, the once-beaten Yardlings will clash with the Boston Boys Club at 7 o'clock...
...Orleans, 73,000 fans filled the Sugar Bowl to watch undefeated Tennessee play undefeated Boston College. When the sun had set on as hair-raising a game as has been seen all fall, the underdog Boston gang, led by scrawny Charlie O'Rourke, a 158-lb. stringbean, had proved that they could take care of themselves in any company...
...Brown 6 to 0, while it dropped a thriller 12 to 9 to B. C. which had even the Boston scribes excited. The Yardlings' record of two games lost and only one won, all of these against prep school teams, would seem to make them a definite underdog...
...last week, its former associates in the Big Ten (now Big Nine) carried on eleven-man war. Ohio State, defending champion, played Northwestern in what turned out to be the game of the week. Northwestern, despite its 40-to-0 victory over Syracuse the week before, was the underdog. But the underdog showed its fangs, intercepted one of mighty Don Scott's magnificent passes to score a touchdown, win the game...