Word: upset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief upset of tournament was fall of James J. Fuld '37, captain-elect of the Cowlesmen and top-seeded in this affair. Casey Wynn '40 disposed of Fuld in three sets in the third round, in the fourth he himself met a 6-0, 6-1 defeat at the hands of Howard P. Kahn 1L. The latter, of Michigan racket fame, was in turn vanquished by the invincible Burt...
Injured when his automobile upset near Three Rivers, N. Mex., was Cattleman Robert Kleberg Jr., whose famed Santa Gertrudis ranch covers 1,250,000 acres, fronts on the Gulf of Mexico for 80 miles. Before the Society of Motion Picture Engineers at Rochester, N. Y., Board Chairman Merlin Hall Aylesworth of Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. demanded higher cinema admission prices, declared: "The wasteful, injurious practice . . . of giving away one Grade A picture with one Grade B picture is like eating too much ice cream at one time." Stricken in Hollywood with bronchial pneumonia lay Cinemactress Norma Shearer, widow of famed...
Pitt, pointing for the Rose Bowl, was upset 7-to-0 when little Duquesne's substitute halfback, George Matsik, got loose around right end, ran 72 yd. for a touchdown...
There are more grounds for believing an upset possible than the 32-0 Army stamped might seem to warrant. Witnesses of the Crimson eleven clicking off plays in practice sessions prier to that game can't help but feel that the Harlow trained boys have a punch they couldn't uncock against Army. Whether it was the rain, or just a bad case of stage fright doesn't matter now-there is very little use in crying over the 32 points cropped by the Army mule from Cambridge turf last Saturday. The important question is whether or not this latent...
...this afternoon depends largely on just how successful the starting eleven will be in shaking off the underdog pathology that was obviously bothering them last week. And this should become obvious in the acid feel of the first few minutes of play. Harvard's best chance of staging the upset they are shooting for will He in tomshawking the Indian first...