Word: upset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What does it all add up to? Is the new contraption washed up? Emphatically no. The Cornell team upset our plans exactly as we upset Columbia's. They grabbed the initiative, befuddled an inexperienced Crimson team, and never let it get settled...
...this well with a couple of hard running backs named Paul Girolamo and Bob Dunston, flavor with a 200 pound line, baste with the factors outlined above, and you have the substance Harvard will have to digest this afternoon. It ain't Lion meat, but it may upset...
Past Radcliffe-Harvard athletic relations have generally centered around crew, and during the war a Radcliffe eight scored an upset win over a Harvard beat. The Misses Jaffe, Reed, and Trygstad were hopeful that this feat could be repeated, but expressed fear that if they lost, crew custom might prevail in which case they would be forced to give their shirts to the victorious Harvardians...
...team can go either up or down following a horrendous defeat. It can figure that the upset was merely its own fault and then finish up its season in fine style. Or, like last year's Harvard team after the Virginia disaster, it can figure it just isn't any good after all and end its season in spathy...
...Well, you see my brother goes to Yale, and he was very distressed and upset when I said I was going to Radcliffe (he wanted me to go to Smith or Vassar) you see, well, it's because going to Yale, you know, he doesn't think much of Harvard. You know, I mean you can understand that...