Word: upset
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Williams registered the first upset of the intercollegiate season Wednesday as the Ephs squeaked out a 5-4 victory over Penn, pre-season favorites for the national championship. The home court advantage gave Williams the necessary edge in an extremely close match. Harvard plays Penn at Philadelphia in February, but plays Williams at Hemenway so that if the home court remains a decisive factor, a three or even four-way fight for the national championship remains a possibility...
ATKINS did not stage a Brooke-like campaign. As a student in the Law School, and a former militant executive of the Boston NAACP, Atkins ran for the Council last year as a progressive spokesman for Roxbury. In a mild upset, he came in seventh among eighteen for one of the nine city-wide seats...
...recent success on the court, as Pete Varney has stepped in to aid the house to a 3-1 "A" league record. Athletic secretary Jody Markowski said yesterday of his sophomore star: "Pete's a big one. He covers his territory." Varney did not play when Adams was upset by winless Dunster after defeating Eliot, Kirkland, and Dudley...
...wing with Mickey Gray and Eddie Wright alternating on the other. Besides his all-senior line, B.U. Coach Jack Kelley has an all junior and an all sophomore line skating in front of an experienced defense and veteran goalie Jim McCann. After beating New Brunswick twice, B.U. was upset by Brown and trounced by a powerful team from the University of New Hampshire...
This direct affront to their city was probably enough to anger most proud Chicagoans. Policemen and viewers, however, were upset by the alleged lack of objectivity in reports like Perkins'. From them arose the charges of slanting the news. Mayor Daley claimed the media had been unfair by not giving the taunting, obscenity-shouting protesters equal time in their coverage. Television, he charged, had shown only his policemen's reaction, and not the provocations they were reacting...