Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several outstanding performances plus a preponderance of seconds and thirds earned by the Crimson track team in winning the eighth annual edition of the Heptagonal Games last Saturday, explains their victory which upset all the official dope sheets, but not the unofficial ones...
...greatest upset apple-cart from the Harvard point of view was John Bonner's surprising win in the discus, the last event which decided the meet. Big Jack, who had never topped 142 feet in competition before, came through in fine style as he heaved the platter a nifty 153 feet, five inches, to take the event, and clinch the laurels for the team. His showing was the best example all afternoon of Jaakko's pre-meet prediction and generalization that "the harder the competition, the harder they will fight...
First Cunningham upset Abbot and won the right to participate in the Rowe Cup. Then Abbot regained his prestige of last year by beating Cunningham and thus going on to win the Goldthwait Cup for Bert Haines...
Wisconsin's huge red crew has the potentialities of springing the biggest upset in quite a while, but the Badgers are an unknown quantity, inasmuch as they have not raced this year. Their great size and power makes them better suited for distance rather than sprint races, and yesterday afternoon they looked a little ragged around the edges...
...beating Princeton last week, Pennsylvania proved itself a factor, but the Quakers lack weight and are not really counted as competition. Tech, also, is considered way out of the running, and if it finishes better than last, it will be an upset...