Word: dan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week before the Harvard game in 1932, energetic 'Poonies made off with a new mascot and soon pictures of Handsome Dan II licking the feet of John Harvard were moving over the national wire services. There was never any question from that day on that a new "unjinxed" mascot must be found...
...Handsome Dan III, a huge white animal, was presented to the Yale coach at the beginning of the next season. But, alas, he proved hopelessly inadequate. He was afraid of crowds and shrinked from his Saturday afternoon duties...
...Dan IV lasted a full year. Unfortunately, the following year he had a run in with a car and died of "a serious Paralysis of posterior extremous" at a local canine hospital...
...longest lasting was Dan V. who successfully performed his duties from 1939 to 1946, when he died...
...fast, strenuous existence of a Yale, be it man or dog, proved too much for Dan VI, who died of a heart attack while vacationing in Florida. He had lasted only one year at the stremous pace...