Word: jinx
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...repeat it outdoors this Saturday, Dartmouth will not only have to turn back a Varsity squad which has come through a three-meet warmup session unscathed, but must break a thirty-year jinx which has kept the Big Green victory flag from flying over Soldiers Field since...
Mort Waldstein, Sophomore left-hander, went the route--and then some--as he pitched the Stahlmen to a 2 to 1 victory over a highly toned Boston University nine, breaking a two-year jinx, in the Soldiers Field opener yesterday afternoon...
West Point's southpaw hurler, Johnny Atkinson, was wild to the tune of seven walks, but his slowball put such a jinx on traditional Harvard sluggers Buckley and Clay that he held the Crimson to six hits and pulled out with a 7-2 victory. He lasted out the entire game. Jack Schwede pitched the first five innings for Harvard and allowed five runs. Burgy Ayres finished the game...
Married. Virginia Hand ("Jinx") Callaway, 19, only daughter of Textile Tycoon Cason Callaway, good friend of fellow Warm Springs Enthusiast Franklin Delano Roosevelt; and Lieut. Benjamin Mart Bailey Jr., 24, football and track star on 1939 West Point teams; in La Grange...
...drawing its equipment this afternoon, this year's squad starts practice earlier than any previous Freshman lacrosse team in an effort to break the Yale victory jinx that has plagued all Yardling stickmen since lacrosse has been a first-year sport. The men will be under the tutelage of Norman Blottner 1L, who, last year, was elected to the Honorable Mention list of the All-American lacrosse team...