Word: upset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale will upset Harvard according to Herster Barres, Yale '32 and at present End Coach at New York University...
...Therefore put down my choice for the major upset of 1937 as . . . Yale over Harvard," Woodward's answer: "We have made our choice and are stuck with...
...people most upset by this split was Wallace Wade, who felt as if the split was brought about by the more Southern schools, such as Alabama, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia. . . . In fact, at the Conference banquet that night when official announcement of the split was made, my seat being near Wade, I heard him remark to the man on his left something to this effect-"They have put us with the damn amateurs. If I ever get the chance I will show them a few things." The first chance came in 1933, when he was offered...
...When the University of Texas met Baylor last week, Baylor had defeated six consecutive opponents, Texas had defeated one out of six. With four minutes left to play, Texas Halfback Hugh Wolfe, like Alabama's Sanford, kicked a field goal. Texas won 9-to-6 in the upset-of-the-week...
...years has hung a continual pall of acrid smoke. Meanwhile, the sky above Medellin, Colombia has been clear. Last week this fact was responsible for the death of a crop control program far older and far bigger than any ever attempted by the New Deal. With a suddenness which upset coffee cups all over the world the Brazilian Government announced that it would abandon its 31-year attempt to limit coffee production, would adopt instead a policy of open competition...