Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vernon Struck--quarterback, halfback, and fullback respectively. The team had had a good season, winning the opening game 54 to 0 from invading Springfield and losing only once prior to the West Point contest by an unexpectedly lopsided score to Dartmouth in what some analysts termed a startling upset...
...team and the coaches have emphasized that they view these injuries as misfortunes rather than alibis. In their abbreviated condition they went out to win two recent ball games against more fortunately situated opponents. In one case they succeeded with a 7 to 0 upset; in the other, they missed by a single point. Such a mishap hardly warrants the flare-up of defeatism that has followed the loss to Dartmouth...
...Haven, Wisconsin scored the upset of the week by beating Yale...
Except for its timing, the ruling was not unexpected. It came on the second day of the American Federation of Labor's convention in San Francisco, and it upset John L. Lewis' plan to make defiance of the oath his personal battle cry. In Cincinnati, Senator Robert A. Taft said that the Board's ruling was "certainly not in conflict with the intention of Congress...
...There was I," sings the jilted bride in the old music-hall song, "waiting at the church. Lor', how it did upset...