Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the graduation of forwards Johnny Crocker and Bob Feloney and the doubtful starting status of Shaw McKean because of injury, there is little chance of an upset tonight. George Minot is on hand to fill McKean's place at right wing, while the already capable defense squad is due for some additional support from Charlie Coulter...
...clock this evening in Boston Gardon Bill Barelay's team will have a chance to make those two records two-one and one-two. To do that though, they will have to upset a Tiger squad that has an eight and four overall record, and that is flushed with a five-in-a-row streak of wins, all over better-than-average opposition...
...bolster a team that has twiced missed upset victories by slim margins, and has at other times been beaten quite badly, Bill Barclay has padded his roster with three new faces...
...there wasn't any upset, and so the season must be racked up as a failure. Everyone played his best, even in defeat the team appeared at close to its 1947 peak, but the Elis still had Jackson and Nadherny and Furse and just too much the better team; and the better team seems always to get the better share of the breaks. The final score was 31 to 21. The season's final record was 4 up 5 down...
...particularly strong. The opener with M.I.T., was no more than a warm-up, as was the last pre-exam tilt with Brown. In both cases a few individual stars on the opposing side were not sufficient to overcome well-spread Crimson strength. Army, supposedly tough, fell in a minor upset at West Point as several heretofore unheralded performers turned in victories to clinch the meet...