Word: upset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...U.C.L.A. in the semifinals of the N.C.A.A. championship at Los Angeles. Last year in the same N.C.A.A. round, U.C.L.A. whipped Houston by a score of 73-58 and went on to win the championship. Then, last January, Houston turned the tables with a startling 71-69 midseason upset that knocked the Bruins from the No. 1 ranking and smashed their 47-game winning streak. Now it was Houston with its own 32-game winning streak on the line, and U.C.L.A. was the one thirsting for revenge...
Rematch? Mismatch was more like it. By game time, the odds makers had installed U.C.L.A. as an eight-point fa vorite on the strength of a tougher schedule and no losses since the Houston upset. But no one remotely expect ed anything like the slaughter that followed. Attacking from the first tipoff, Coach John Wooden's Bruins outran, outpassed, outshot, and outrebounded the Cougars. Final score: U.C.L.A. 101, Houston...
...colleagues calculated that thousands of sea birds died from being coated with oil or from swallowing it. But except for the rosy-footed summer tourist, few other shore or sea creatures were seriously bothered by the oil. The detergents, however, killed a significant amount of sea life and seriously upset the ecology in many coastal areas...
...carried 20 times for 173 yards. Gatto gained 102 in 19 tries. And the defense was superb. By winning this game Harvard seemed to have wrapped up the Ivy title. Yet later in the season Princeton upset Harvard, and we had to settle for a three-way tie for the Ivy crown...
...only real excitement of the season was long past. That had come five weeks earlier, in a crowded, noisy IAB, when 1600 people watched McClung and Sedlacek destroy a legend, and pull off the biggest upset in Harvard's 67-year basketball history...