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Word: underdogs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tufts contingent 34-0, and with the single exception of the 1.75 pound class they should be able to perform the same feat this year. In the 175 pound class Don Lowry, football guard, is to wrestle, but a complete lack of experience definitely slates him as the underdog in his weight...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: CHARGED WRESTLING LINEUP TO MEET TUFTS | 12/16/1939 | See Source »

...shivering spectators would not have traded seats with any sun-baked fan in Florida or California. In as exciting a game as has been seen in its 57-year history, the underdog Bulldogs tore the Harvard team to tatters, kept them away from the Yale goal line until the very last minute, scampered away with a 20-to-7 victory. Even before the last-minute Harvard touchdown, jubilant Yalemen were on the field snatching the ball from the players, scuffling with cops, tearing down goal posts and bashing one another's noses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crisis | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

SINCE YOU PUT HARMON ON THE COVER NOV. 6 IT IS ONLY LOGICAL YOU PUT THERE THIS WEEK THE COACH WHO BROUGHT AN UNDERDOG TEAM UP TO STOP HARMON AND BEAT MICHIGAN IN THE GREATEST UPSET OF SEASON. I REFER OF COURSE TO BOB ZUPPKE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...upset fashion, traditional and typical of a 58 year-old rivalry, the Bulldog from New Haven snapped and caught short a fighting Crimson eleven this afternoon. As 55,000 fans were jarred to their feet, the underdog Yale team offset a series of previous defeats in one fell swoop defeating a determined but not yet developed Harvard Varsity Yale 20; Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE BEATS HARVARD, 20--7 | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

Coach Ducky Pond is bringing another typical Yale underdog football team into the Stadium Saturday. The Elis have a good defensive line, a weak running attack, and a dangerous aerial offensive. On Saturday, that forward wall may become a ball of defensive fire capable of making Crimson ground advances painstaking, the running attack may function like a well-oiled machine, or the Blue passers may drop their deadly bombs right on their targets...

Author: By D. D. P., | Title: What's His Number? | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

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