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Little 1. Fling Huey will be cating bulldog mincemeat with chopsticks made out of the despicable Yale goalposts before two hundred more bandits are killed in Manchuria. It is no bull to say that the bulldog will have his day as the underdog tomorrow. Harvard 14 Yale 7 Brown 14 Colgate 6 Notre Dame 20 Navy 0 Stanford 21 California...
Lacking the snap and jauntiness which the underdog Dartmouth team evinced, the Crimson eleven disappointed its followers by getting into the swing only once, and that just after Pescosolido's superb 93-yard touchdown runback. The Harvard squad was crippled, to be sure, in the second half, but that cannot serve as an excuse for the poor showing put on as a whole by Casey's players, even in the face of a Big Green team which refused to be beaten...
...readers of Scripps (now Scripps-Howard) papers question the sincerity of a man who amassed a fortune of many millions, lived in quiet ease on a California ranch and aboard a yacht, yet caused his editors always to cry out for the masses, for Labor, for the underdog. Biographer Gardner answers them in two ways. Explicitly the ''Old Man" is quoted as saying of his wealth to a worker: "I can't help it. ... You are too lazy to think for yourselves. . . . You pay me a big income because you think I am worth it. I make decisions for you?...
...major sport competitions between the two institutions. Tonight, Harvard will be playing on Yale's home ice where Cambridge teams seem to have had a pre-disposition to win. Yale, despite its improved showing in the second game of the series, still has the apparent advantage of being the underdog and has come strategically closer to the tactics best calculated to upset the Crimson offensive...
Harvard University grapplers will meet an underdog Tufts team this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock in the New Indoor Athletic Building. On the basis of comparative scores the Crimson should be conceded a considerable advantage, as Tufts lost to Navy 32 to 0 and to Springfield 18 to 14, while Harvard lost to the midshipmen 22 to 8 and beat Springfield...