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...following season an underdog Crimson outfit tackled a powerful and masterful Eli eleven, and through the combined efforts and persevering spirit of the entire team and the running and plunging of Buell and George Owen '23, the Bulldog bowed, the final score leaving Harvard...
Then came the next season the great moral victory of the Crimson team. With M.A. Cheek '26 playing stellar football an underdog Harvard eleven held the Blue cohorts to a 0 to 0 tie, in weather the most unfavorable. The 1926 fray in the Bowl is remembered by undergraduates for the Harvard touchdown brought about by a pass, Henry Chauncey '27 to W.G. Saltonstall '28, which gave the Crimson rooters a moment of hope. The game ended, however, with Yale in the lead, 12 to 7. Last year's tilt in the Stadium brought out the steady power the Blue...
...consecutive defeat for the Crimson. Since 1922, when the University broke a four year Elli winning streak by a seven point margin, some of the closest meets on record have gone to the Blue. Two years ago Captain W. L. Tibbetts '26 led a fighting team rated as the underdog to a heroic effort which ended with Yale holding a 67 2-3 to 67 1-3 margin...
Boston's baseball fan is thumbing his nose at the fan of Manhattan. For some ten years Boston, both in the American and National League, has been a clumsy underdog. When potent baseball players came to Boston they were soon sold to stronger teams. Boston has been in or near the baseball cellar long enough to be smeared with the damps and cobwebs of depression. Last week, in one of the most astounding trades in the intricate business annals of the game, Rogers Hornsby, some say the greatest second baseman of all time, went to Boston in exchange...
...Crimson squad enters the game as the underdog, having suffered several defeats, while Andover enters the game with a clean slate. A comparison of the previous games favors Andover, for the Academy beat Tabor 3-1, while Tabor downed the Crimson Freshmen 2-1, and both Andover and the Freshmen defeated Dean Academy...