Word: jinx
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more day of preparation before Harvard's first invasion of a Middle-Western gridiron, the University football squad went through a light but brisk workout yesterday afternoon. There was no contact work whatsoever, as the Crimson coaching staff was taking no chances of running afoul of the injury jinx...
Whatever individual glory the pair received last year accrued largely to Trainer who had the good fortune to escape the injury jinx throughout the entire season. That is to say he escaped all injury which kept him out of games. In the Pennsylvania game he collided with Paul Scull on a certain line play which left its effect on his masticating apparatus but did not keep him from action for any length of time. Trainer later described the Penn captain as the hardest running back he had ever opposed, certainly a tribute to the man whom many rated...
Gildea was center on his Freshman eleven and seemed slated for the first team job last year when he was laid up by an injury which kept him inactive for most of the season. If he can shake the jinx, it seems probable that he will see much service on the front line this fall. He is not very large, but his scrappiness makes up for what he lacks in weight and height...
...assembled for the Corinthian Yacht Club's regatta. Time and again the Bat led at the start, lagged at the finish. Before the week was out, Sailor Adams Jr. left to join Gerald B. Lambert's Vanitie on the New York Yacht Club cruise. Perhaps thus rid of a jinx, the Bat finally won a race as the Secretary's vacation drew to a close...
...same time the Freshman team is planning to upset the 20 year jinx which hangs over the yearling meet. Not since 1907 has a first year Crimson team humbled its Eli opponents, but Captain E. E. Record's men comprise the strongest yearling aggregation in many years, while the Yale team, judging by its showing in the Princeton meet, is not as good as of past years. The 1932 events, scheduled to take place five minutes before the corresponding University contests, should in several cases provide keener competition than the more experienced University teams, as Record, N. P. Hallowell...