Word: underdogs
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...years ago Yale was the favorite and the same case held true last year. Again this year the University will go into the game the underdog. The team is far from over-confident. Every man realizes that he must fight for every inch next Saturday. The team will have to show the spirit that held Yale for downs on Harvard's eighteen inch line three years ago, or that made the University come from behind to beat a great Yale eleven last fall...
Five men who had already won their "H's" and 16 otheres classed at the beginning of the season as "green material" turned the trick for the Crimson. As in the football game last fall the University went into the contest as the underdog and fighting as it had seldom fought before, emerged victorious. In the final analysis it was the wonderful driving finishes of the Crimson runners at the tape which sent the Elis down to defeat...