Word: underdogs
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...event. Messrs. Hutter, Kendall, Coleman, Barker et al will be much too much too much for them. But, to be conservative, if Princeton takes four firsts and Harvard takes five, the seconds and thirds will play an important part Saturday night. However, Princeton still remains a definite underdog...
...felt that Hitler and his National Socialist party are natural sequels to Germany's underdog position...
Scoring unassisted after 18 seconds of overtime, Captain Dick Lewis gave an inspired underdog Dartmouth team a 3-2 victory over the Crimson sextet before a capacity Carnival crowd at Hanover Saturday morning...
...section man hissing his students is like a man biting a dog, but due to the insistence of one of his students the simile must read "rat bites underdog." An Economics A instructor marched into class during the reading period just bubbling over with high spirits and ideas. One idea was an hour exam and it did not go over so well with the class. In fact without any time out for deliberation they hissed him and his idea. But he hissed right back perhaps a less resounding hiss, but a much more cultured one, and the exam was held...
...Manhattan's Madison Square Garden one night last week 18,000 fight fans witnessed one of the most exciting stretch finishes they could remember. Onetime World Heavyweight Champion Jim Braddock had entered the ring an 8-to-5 underdog in a ten-round bout with Welshman Tommy Farr, British heavyweight champion. For eight rounds Jim Braddock did nothing to belie the betting public's estimation of him. Then suddenly, in the ninth round, the 32-year-old "Cinderella Man," who came off Relief three years ago to win the world championship from Max Baer and then lost...