Word: upsets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...champion low hurdle for Midwestern powerhouses. The University had the smallest male enrollment in the conference, and home games in Bloomington drew so poorly that the team played mostly on the road. First crack out of the box this season, the worm turned with a 13-7 upset of Michigan. Last week the Hoosiers gave Pittsburgh a 19-0 mud bath. This week, if they get by their traditional "Old Oaken Bucket" set-to with Purdue, the unbeaten but once-tied (by Northwestern) Hoosiers will wrap up their first Big Ten (now nine) crown...
...Czechoslovak Communists, at best temporary friends of middleway revolution, have made no move to seize power or to upset the balance envisioned by Dr. Benes. But they hold solid posts in all the key strata of the nation's life-in the Government, army, trade unions, cooperatives, nationalized industry. They are still authoritarians. They flank Masaryk's portrait with Lenin and Stalin...
...through five exhibition games, including one with the Champion Green Bay Packers, began 1945 league competition with a 21-6 win over the improved Chicago Cardinals. Then, this week, they had their wings clipped-by the geared-up Detroit Lions and trigger-armed Charles Fenenbock. The 28-to-24 upset was the Eagles' second loss in 21 games. But, win or lose, their exploitation of the T formation remains pro football's speediest, prettiest and often deadliest...
King George persuaded the BBC to change ITMA's broadcast time to a later hour so as not to upset the palace dinner routine. Princess Elizabeth, on her sixteenth birthday, had the cast invited to Windsor Castle for Britain's first and only command radio performance...
...Government of British-sponsored Iraq, filed a "friendly protest" in Washington, objecting that Palestine already had enough "strangers." The Arabs had some reason to be baffled. They had understood that President Roosevelt, at his post-Yalta meeting with Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud, had promised not to upset or seriously disturb the Arab position. Now the White House took the ground that since no written record of any such promise existed, the promise did not exist...