Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Varsity squash captain Pete Milton upset fourth-seeded John Sidler yesterday to enter the round of sixteen in the National Intercollegiate Squash Championships at Hartford, Conn. Milton was down six match points but came back to defeat the number one man from Army, 15-11, 8-15, 12-15, 16-15, and 18-17. In the first round, Milton easily won, as did Harvard's Ben and Martin Heckscher...
...second time in three years no U.S. tennis player was good enough to get to the finals of the National Indoor Tennis championships. Playing the best tennis of his career, Sweden's young Ulf Schmidt upset his countryman Sven Davidson (1954's winner) in Manhattan...
...Debate Council, as host, did not enter a team, but Robert H. King '57 upset the defending champion, Robert Smith of Dartmouth in the Impromptu Speaking Division. In the finals at the banquet Saturday impromptu finalists gave five minute off the cuff speeches on current news topics drawn at random...
...records won't speak of the controversy that heightened the sting of the Eli upset. It started when Crimson coach Cooney Weiland removed Captain Flynn from the goal with 11 seconds of the game left in order to attack with six forwards. The move apparently paid off when Bob McVey scored on a last-second shot...
Yale won by playing the same kind of defensive game that Northeastern used to upset the varsity on Tuesday. Play was in the Eli zone most of the time, especially in the last period, yet the Crimson forwards were consistently unable to work the puck in near the mouth of the goal for clear shots...