Word: underdog
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...situation is much the same. Harvard is once more called "the underdog" and the newspapers are heralding "another mighty Yale team". In spite of that Coach Fisher dared last night to give the motto for the week. That motto means only one thing: Confidence in the undergraduates as well as in the eleven...
...years ago Yale was the favorite and the same case held true last year. Again this year the University will go into the game the underdog. The team is far from over-confident. Every man realizes that he must fight for every inch next Saturday. The team will have to show the spirit that held Yale for downs on Harvard's eighteen inch line three years ago, or that made the University come from behind to beat a great Yale eleven last fall...
...uncertain terms. At the mass-meeting tomorrow, at the Stadium Thursday, in the Bowl Saturday, there the undergraduate has his chance to stand behind the men on the playing field. And it is only with such support that there can be expected another victory over the Bulldog by the Underdog...
Five men who had already won their "H's" and 16 otheres classed at the beginning of the season as "green material" turned the trick for the Crimson. As in the football game last fall the University went into the contest as the underdog and fighting as it had seldom fought before, emerged victorious. In the final analysis it was the wonderful driving finishes of the Crimson runners at the tape which sent the Elis down to defeat...