Word: upset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, the Harvard team will be depending on its speed and quickness to score the hoped for upset. The tactics of working the ball in from the center of the floor to a spot where a set shot can be tried or all the way in under the basket made the Indians look sheepish during most of Wednesday's encounter and should be even more effective tonight...
...heavily favored Dartmouth hoop team will engage the Crimson Varsity fresh from its upset victory over Tufts last Saturday in the indoor Athletic Building tonight. This game in the first home contest in the Eastern Intercollegiate League for the Crimson who have split their other two League games...
Coach Wes Fesler will start the same team that came out from the examination period to upset Tufts 40-38. At forwards will be Chuck Lutz and Bill Webber, while Sam White, the only man over six feet, will hold down the center berth. Sophomore ace Ed Buckley, who caged 16 tallies Saturday, will pair with his classmate Bud Finegan at the guards...
...first half it was a question of the officials calling everything they saw and almost everything they suspected. He is a hard man to guard, and Columbia's Len will deserves credit for a brilliant bit of defensive play in limiting him to but five points as the Lions upset Coach Cowles...
Jittery and wrathful appeared the white-thatched leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, Conservative Robert J. Manion, M.D., whose Irish tongue is as sharp as his surgical knives. Doctor Manion was upset because for several days he had tried in vain to get an advance peep at the Speech-from-the-Throne which Lord Tweedsmuir was to read. Ordinarily the Leader of the Opposition is allowed the courtesy of a peek. This time the Speech had been kept secret by order of its author, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. That astute and genial fat man obviously...