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Question 3... And this is the most important question, can the Crimson upset the two Ancient Eight volleyball powerhouses...
Places in the polling hierarchy traditionally occupied by the overpowering-Alabama, Notre Dame, Pitt or U.S.C.-have been taken over by the middling-South Carolina, Kentucky or Washington. In its first five games, Alabama was able to beat only quaint Southwestern Louisiana, but then upset Penn State before losing to Tennessee. As bad starts go, this one went back to 1957, the year before the coming of Bear Bryant. About a month before Coach Bryant died in 1983, former Receiver Ray Perkins was selected to follow him. "From disbelief to sadness to disappointment to madness," as Perkins has described...
...YORK--Overcoming serious stomach cramps and extreme heat and humidity, Orlando Pizzolato, a little-known 26-year-old distance runner from Italy, scored a stunning upset victory in the New York City Marathon yesterday...
Because after a 1-0 upset of the nation's then-second-ranked University of Massachusetts squad a week and a half ago, and after a 6-0 shellacking of the University of Rhode Island just last week--a victory that saw the Harvard club score more goals in one game than any Crimson team since 1977--the Cantabs seemed primed to tame the Tigers...
...Crimson, ranked seventh in last week's national coaches' poll, pulled off a stunning 1-0 upset of the fourth-ranked University of Massachusetts squad last Monday. That victory, along with Friday's 2-0 triumph over Princeton, should boost the booters in both the NCAA and coaches' polls...