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U.S. President Harry Truman holds up an edition of the Chicago Tribune prematurely declaring his defeat in the 1948 Presidential election.

Upset is a term used when referring to a competition, frequently in electoral politics or sports. When an upset occurs, the party popularly expected to win (the favorite) is defeated by an underdog the majority expects to lose, defying the conventional wisdom. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Image File history File links Harry S. Truman holding a copy of the Chicago Tribune at Union Station in St. ... Image File history File links Harry S. Truman holding a copy of the Chicago Tribune at Union Station in St. ... The presidential seal was first used in 1880 by President Rutherford B. Hayes and last modified in 1959 by adding the 50th star for Hawaii. ... For the victim of Mt. ... // The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by the Tribune Company. ... Presidential electoral votes by state. ... Competition is the act of striving against another force for the purpose of achieving dominance or attaining a reward or goal, or out of a biological imperative such as survival. ... An election is a decision making process where people choose people to hold official offices. ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. ... An underdog is a person or group in a competition, frequently in electoral politics, sports, and creative works, who is popularly expected to lose. ... Conventional wisdom is a term coined by the economist John Kenneth Galbraith, used to describe certain ideas or explanations that are generally accepted as true by the public. ...

Examples of major upsets in politics

• 1948 - Unpopular Democratic United States President Harry Truman defeats the highly favored Republican candidate Thomas Dewey.
• 1990 - Paul Wellstone, an underfunded professor, defeats popular Senator Rudy Boschwitz in the Minnesota Senate race. In Texas, Ann Richards defeats Clayton Williams in the race for Texas governor.
• 1994 - Texas Republican George W. Bush defeats highly favored and very popular Democrat incumbent Ann Richards in the race for Texas governor.

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Examples of major upsets in sports

• 1913 At the U.S. Open - Francis Ouimet, a 20-year-old American amateur and immigrant, defeats golf superstars Ted Ray and Harry Vardon.
• 1950 - Football (soccer) - In the World Cup, the United States shocks England in a match considered one of the biggest surprises in World Cup history.
• 1950 - In the same competition Uruguay committed a shock defeat of Brazil in the world cup final, with the latter nation needing only a draw to win the World Cup; this game is known as the Maracanazo (or Maracanaço).
• 1954 - Tiny Milan High School in Milan, Indiana with an enrollment of under 100 students beats Muncie Central High School in the Indiana High School State Basketball Championships, with an enrollment of over 2800, by a score of 32-30. This game is what the movie Hoosiers is based off of.
• 1969 - American football - Super Bowl III - The New York Jets shock the Baltimore Colts to win 16-7 when they were the heavy underdog, representing the lightly-regarded American Football League.
• 1975 - In the open section of the World Open chess tournament, expert Alan Trefler (ELO rating 2075, 125 points below the lowest master rating) scores 8-1 to tie for first with International Grandmaster Pál Benkő.
• 1978 - Rugby-Munster beat the All Blacks 12-0. Munster are the only Irish side ever to have beaten New Zealand, Including the Irish national side. More than 100,000 people claim to have been there the day it happened, despite Limerick's ground holding only around 12,000. The game is immortalised by a stage play Alone it Stands and the book Stand Up.
• 1980 - Ice hockey - In the Miracle On Ice, the United States beats the Soviet Union in the semifinals at the 1980 Olympics.
• 1982 - U. S. college basketball - 800 student Chaminade University upsets the number one team in the country, the Virginia Cavaliers, 77-72 in what is considered the biggest upset in college basketball history.
• 1982 - Football (soccer) - In the World cup, newcomers Algeria scored the second victory in the tournament by an African side when they defeated giants (and two time world champions) West Germany 2-1.
• 1985 - U. S. college basketball - 1985 NCAA Men's Tournament - Villanova University, a No. 8 seed, upsets Georgetown, the defending champion and consensus No. 1 team in America, to win the championship.
• 1990 - Football (soccer) - In the World cup, Cameroon defeated the holding champions Argentina in the opening match 1-0 and became the first African team to reach the quarterfinals. They then lost to England 2-3 due to an extra-time penalty kick.
• 1990 - Boxing - James "Buster" Douglas knocks out then-undefeated Mike Tyson in 10 rounds.
• 1992 - Football (soccer) - In the FA Cup third round, defending champions Arsenal FC were beaten 2-1 by Wrexham A.F.C., who had finished bottom of the league the previous season, and only avoided relegation to the Conference as the league was expanding that season so no one went down.
• 1994 - Eighth-seeded Denver Nuggets (42-40) stun the first-seeded Seattle Supersonics (63-19) in the first round of the 1994 NBA Western Conference Playoffs, after falling behind 2-0 in the best-of-five series, and then winning the next three games to be the first Eight-seed team in NBA history to ever defeat a one-seed.
• 2001 - College Basketball - NCAA Tournament - The Hampton Pirates, a 15 seed, shock the 2 seeded Iowa State Cylclones and pull off a great NCAA Tournament upset.
• 2001 - Football (soccer) - In the Copa America 2001, the last minute replacement tean, Honduras, defeats Brazil 2-0 in the quarter finals.
• 2002 - American football - Super Bowl XXXVI - The New England Patriots, 14-point underdogs, shock the St. Louis Rams to win 20-17 on an Adam Vinatieri field goal as time expired.
• 2002 - Football (soccer) - In the World cup opening match, Senegal defeats defending champions France 1-0. The French subsequently left the competition in the first round, winless and scoreless.
• 2003 - American football - 2003 Fiesta Bowl - The Ohio State Buckeyes, 14-point underdogs, shock the undefeated Miami Hurricanes to win the 2002-2003 BCS National Championship.
• 2004 - Basketball-2004 NBA Finals- The Detroit Pistons beat the Los Angeles Lakers 4-1. This is one of the biggest upsets in basketball history because the Lakers had won 3 of the last 4 NBA Finals and had a starting lineup of 4 future hall of famers (Shaquille O'Neil, Kobe Bryant, Gary Payton, Karl Malone).
• 2004 - Football (soccer) - Greece, a 150-1 long shot according to some bookmakers, win Euro 2004 by defeating hosts Portugal twice as well as giants France and the Czech Republic.
• 2004 - Olympic Basketball - Puerto Rico defeats the United States in the first game of the Olympics by 17 points in a game that was dominated from the beginning from the Puerto Rican national team. Several weeks before the United States won a friendly match prior to the Olympics by over 40 points.
• 2004 - ALCS - The Boston Red Sox shock the New York Yankees after fallin 3-0 and winning the last 4 games to eliminate the Yankees and go on to the World Series
• 2006 - Ice hockey - In the semifinals of the women's tournament at the Winter Olympics, Sweden defeats the USA 3-2 in a shootout. This marked the first time that either the USA or eventual gold medalist Canada lost in an international women's hockey competition to any third nation.
• 2006 - College Basketball - NCAA Tournament - The George Mason Patriots shock the world by upsetting four teams consecutively to make it to the Final Four. The 11th ranked Patriots beat #6 Michigan St, #3 UNC, #7 Wichita St, and #1 UConn before finally losing to eventual champions #3 Florida in the Final Four. The Patriots were given 400-1 odds to win the NCAA Tournament and were within two games of doing so.
• 2006 - American Football - The unranked UCLA Bruins defeated the #2 ranked USC Trojans, knocking USC out of the BCS National Championship Game in Glendale, AZ and ending UCLA's seven year losing streak to the Trojans.
• 2007 - MMA - UFC - At UFC 69: Shootout, Matt Serra defeats heavily favored Georges St. Pierre via TKO at 3:25 in the 1st round.
• 2007 - 2007 NBA Playoffs - The Golden State Warriors, seeded #8, upset the highly favored Dallas Mavericks 4-2 in the first round, after Dallas had the best record in the season, winning 67 games.
• 2007 - In the 2007 cricket world cup, the minnow team Ireland defeated the 3rd highest ranked team in the world, Pakistan, in the group stages, knocking them out of the tournament.

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The first "upset" victory

1919 - Horse racing - The term "upset" is falsely thought to derive from a horse of the same name. In the 1919 Sanford Memorial Stakes, 100-1 longshot Upset handed racing hegemon Man O' War the only loss of the stallion's career. Man O' War had suffered an uncharacterisric poor start — he was still circling behind the starting line when the race began. (This was before mechanical starting gates were widely used. Horses circled behind the starting line, then lined up behind a cord strung across the track, which was jerked out of the way when the race starter dropped a flag. Race courses which do not use a starting gate still use this method today. Steeplechase races do this due to the high number of starters.) Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Horse-racing is an equestrian sporting activity which has been practiced over the centuries; the chariot races of Roman times were an early example, as was the contest of the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology. ... Man O War, (March 29, 1917 Nursery Stud farm, Lexington, Kentucky - November 1, 1947, Faraway Farm) [1] is considered by many to be the greatest US thoroughbred racehorse of all time. ...

2002 - George Thompson, a lexicographic researcher, used the full-text online search capabilities of the New York Times databases to disprove this claimed coinage. The verb to upset and the noun upset, were traced to the years 1865 and 1877, respectively.^{[citation needed]} For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...