Word: hexes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Regrets over the Brown game are nothing new for the star-crossed Crimson. The Bruins' hex over the Crimson has endured since Harvard's 1981 title season...
...warmups, strange things can happen. About halfway through the RPI warmups last Friday night, RPI forward Bruce Coles stepped on the puck and fell, reminiscent of what Harvard forward John Murphy had done two weeks earlier. Immediately, goalie Steve Duncan looked very shaky in net. The hex carried over into the game, and the Crimson got three goals in the first period...
...Crimson responded to the hex by doing what it had to do in the third period: applying constant pressure on the Eli net and scoring. When the final buzzer sounded, the Crimson had ended the jinx with a relentless four-goal barrage...
...Ford, Manager Whitey Herzog is celebrated as a thinker. ("The game of baseball's been awful good to me ever since I stopped trying to play it.") But the older Cardinals manager, Coach Red Schoendienst, still likes to flutter his fingers at the opponents in a tried-and-true hex. Something was working. With bunts, balks and stolen bases, the Cardinals finished a three-game sweep on their own plastic turf (3-1, 7-2 and 4-2) to assume a one-game lead...
...factor working for the Crimson in today's home opener will be the hex it has developed over Holy Cross. On ABC television in 1982, Harvard ambushed the then-highly touted Crusaders...