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Word: upsets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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With George Hauptfuhrer still hobbled with tape, Crimson chances at Hanover tonight are overcast with gloom. In fact, victory for the quintet would be an upset; a close game, a moral victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quintet, Minus Hauptfuhrer, Goes Against Green Tonight | 3/3/1948 | See Source »

...Eagles have not compiled too formidable a season record since losing to Harvard, 4 to 3, in their opener last December. With the exception of a surprise upset over Dartmouth last month, B.C.'s four and four total is hardly an impressive one. Dartmouth, B.U., and Princeton number it among their victims...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Battles Eagle Sextet in Arena Tonight; Hauptfuhrer Injured in 64-54 Loss to Quakers | 2/25/1948 | See Source »

Just one year earlier, though, another Winter Carnival crowd saw the fruits of over-confidence, solo assaults, and too many penalties prove almost disastrous, as the visiting Crimson came within one goal of the year's biggest upset. Easily out-classed in every department but the scoring, the migratory Chasemen lost by the slim count of 6 to 5. Keep this in mind if you take a seat at the Arena tonight, but remember also that the Crimson was thumped 16 to 4 in the other Dartmouth game last winter less than a month after the first...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 2/18/1948 | See Source »

Dudley's edging of Eliot was an upset. The finally vanquished Mastodons led 23 to 14 at the half, dropped to a one point lead at the three-quarter mark and fell behind for the first time in the last minute of play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritan, Dudley Quintets Victors | 2/18/1948 | See Source »

...still had two fingers of space between the edge of the bank and the runner of my skeleton-that's just enough." An inch more and he would have crashed. Six times he made the descent of Cresta Run's spine-tingling ice path, to win an upset victory and Italy's one Olympic gold medal.* Average time: 5:23.2 (average speed: 42 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Altius, Citius, Fortius! | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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