Word: upset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally having found it during the Christmas vacation, Barclay's boys promptly put it to use against a highly-tonted, but not over-confident Columbia team, giving the Morningside Heights athletes their toughest battle since the Crimson upset them last year...
Boston College edged them 7 to 6 last night in the St. Botolph Street icebox in what some local papers termed an upset score, and Boston University's New England champions squeezed by them 7 to 5 in an earlier encounter. It will be remembered that the Crimson dropped B.C., 4 to 3, but was humbled by the Terriers...
Pollitt then laid out the party tactics. By encouraging Britain's workers to demand higher wages and a bigger slice from British production, Communists would try to upset Cripps's carefully calculated program for economic recovery. "In our anxiety to drive for increased production," said Pollitt, "we have sometimes done far too little in the fight for wages and conditions. . . . No further cuts . . . must be tolerated and steps [must be] taken to secure immediate wage advances to meet the rising costs of living...
...College's reading period will mark the start of the Crimson's 1947-48 Eastern Intercollegiate League competition, when the Varsity meets Columbia on January 6 at the Boston Arena. The Lions upset basketball dopesters last Wednesday by defeating national champion Holy Cross...
...Crimson, coach Johnny Chase will use the same six starters that upset Boston College a week ago. The success of the first two games may be traced to the general skating improvement of the entire squad, and particularly of defensemen Dick Greeley and Steve Washburn. Greeley is a returning regular and Washburn has come up from last winter's Jayvees...