Word: underdogs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayor John F. ("Red Mike") Hylan for 29 years served the People. As magistrate he protected the underdog, as mayor he championed the 5¢ fare. For more than three years since his retirement as mayor, chafing under his inability to serve, he has started abortive booms for reelection. Failing in his latest he announced last week...
Harvard a Lively Underdog...
...Harvard track team will be decidedly the underdog when it travels to New Haven to oppose the Eli track and field men Saturday afternoon. But Harvard's track teams have a habit of outdoing themselves against the Blue and this year's group in particular has showed an ability in the Dartmouth meet to fight for the split point and the final third place...
...following season an underdog Crimson outfit tackled a powerful and masterful Eli eleven, and through the combined efforts and persevering spirit of the entire team and the running and plunging of Buell and George Owen '23, the Bulldog bowed, the final score leaving Harvard...
Then came the next season the great moral victory of the Crimson team. With M.A. Cheek '26 playing stellar football an underdog Harvard eleven held the Blue cohorts to a 0 to 0 tie, in weather the most unfavorable. The 1926 fray in the Bowl is remembered by undergraduates for the Harvard touchdown brought about by a pass, Henry Chauncey '27 to W.G. Saltonstall '28, which gave the Crimson rooters a moment of hope. The game ended, however, with Yale in the lead, 12 to 7. Last year's tilt in the Stadium brought out the steady power the Blue...