Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last formal game before some trouble brewing in Europe and the Far East called a momentary halt to the series, an under-dog Yale squad snatched a 7 to 3 win from the Crimson on a bleak rainy Saturday, scoring an upset that many present-day students still remember. Don Richards, later killed in the Normandy campaign, returned a punt 60 yards for a touchdown, only to have the score called back because of an offside penalty...
Like their Cambridge counterparts, the Blue can point to an endless succession of injuries that have upset the dope on more than one occasion. This week the main question mark rests on the status of right halfback and leading ground-gainer Ferd Nadberny, who limped through but four rushing plays against the Tigers. His recovery is not yet complete, and only Tuesday, he was forced to retire early from a pre-Harvard drill with his sprained foot still bothering...
...Whisper. Everybody knew that something should be done. Swollen prices could upset the domestic economy. And as the President pointed out last week-even while he reversed himself and put foreign aid ahead of the price situation-swollen prices would multiply the problem of foreign aid: there was no use in Congress' appropriating money for 100 million bushels of wheat if the money, by the time it came to be spent, would buy only 25 million bushels...
...Will Harbut, his Negro groom, put it: "This hoss owes nobody nuthin', an' ain't got no alibis to make . . . he race ten times as a two-yeah-old an' out of those ten races he win ten. How's 'at? Upset beat him? I didn't see it, mister, so I still...
...fate upset the odds as he exchanged whispers instead of Ivy league songs with Miss Shirley Munford of Wellesley's Munger Hall while careening down the General Lawrence Highway in Medford...