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Word: upsetting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When North Carolina upset Navy last month, Football turned sour at Annapolis. The embarrassed Middies had been trying too hard. To loosen them up, Coach Eddie Erdelatz encouraged a corny gag: every game was dedicated to a nicely rounded, nonexistent damsel named Rosie Ragoni. And for Rosie the Navy won. But against the unbeaten and untied Irish of Notre Dame, the team needed stronger magic. It was provided unwittingly by Navy's athletic director, Captain Slade Cutter. The Middies were getting a little tired of his reminders that every game except the Army game was only a practice scrimmage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Middies' Magic | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

Largely because of this, Cornell is generally acknowledged to be the premeet favorite, but those who have watched other allegedly "underdog" Crimson squads upset the odds time and again in recent years, cannot resist the feeling that the varsity may do it again today...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Unbeaten Harriers Contend For Heptagonal Championship Today | 11/8/1957 | See Source »

...natural school for the academically-oriented Westerner. "That certainly is true," he smilingly replied, "but I attended for a much better and more rational reason. My future wife wanted to go to Stanford; when we graduated from high school I went with her. My grandfather would have been upset if he had been alive. He was a sheriff in California and was asked by Leland Stanford to run for Senator. He lost Stanford's support when he came out against Federal grants for the Union Pacific and was consequently defeated...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: Eclectic Bronco-Buster | 11/7/1957 | See Source »

Alton Steiner scored three touchdowns to lead Eliot House to a 19-0 upset victory over Dudley yesterday. It was the Elephants' first win of the season and moved them into a seventh place tie with Lowell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Upsets Dudley for First Win; Adams Defeats Dunster in Soccer | 11/6/1957 | See Source »

...into a rather strong offensive and defensive squad, and if Princeton is not "up" for next Saturday's game in the Stadium, it may be in for a very difficult afternoon.Crimson tackle PETE BRIGGS (77) pounces on a Pennsylvania mistake midway through the second quarter of the varsity's upset victory over Penn Saturday. Coming in from far right to support Briggs' recovery is STU HERSOHN...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Crimson Beats Quakers, 13-6; Johanson, Boulris Lead Upset | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

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