Word: jinx
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jimmy Braddock, whom 22 men have previously defeated, explained his part in what was essentially the most colorless championship match in a decade: "I knew in the seventh that I had him. ... I took his Sunday punch and it didn't hurt me. Say, I guess that Bowl jinx still holds good." His night-watchman father, his mother, his four brothers had witnessed his victory. His wife, onetime telephone operator and mother of three, stayed fearfully at home, listening to the radio account of the fight. Champion Braddock dashed off to a Manhattan hotel to meet her, plan what...
...jinx of twenty years will be broken Saturday if the Varsity Tracksters live up to expectations and beat the Elis, for two decades have passed since the Crimson cindermen have topped the Blue in Eli territory...
...jinx is after Harvard's track team just as the Dartmouth meet looms on the horizon, for Dr. Thorndike has just clapped Milt Green into Stillman to have some cinder burns attended to, and unless the injuries show considerable improvement during the week, the hurdles and broad jump star will not be able to compete Saturday...
Lehigh broke the Lafayette jinx that goes back five years in a 68-game series...
Harvard's Jayvee football team couldn't break the jinx that Freshman elevens have for them and went down to defeat at the hands of the 1938 Holy Cross team, 12-8, on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. The scrubs were tied by the Northeastern Freshmen in their first game...