Word: jinx
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy jinx is broken at last. Before an enthusiastic capacity crowd in the indoor Athletic Building the grapplers held the sailor-boys to a 16 to 16 tie Saturday afternoon while the Freshmen downed Governor Dummer...
...opponents in a row, were considered the best team the Southwest had ever seen. But in 57 agonizing seconds last week, the Farmers saw their $100,000 bid to the Rose Bowl vanish. At Austin, where no Texas A. & M. team has beaten Texas since 1922, the old jinx spurred a team of Longhorns that had been twice beaten this year to paralyze their old rivals with a lightning-swift stab. With Fullback Peter Layden tossing two magnificent forward passes and then plunging over the line, Texas chalked up a touchdown-that turned out to be margin enough...
Place prepared for college at Milton Academy, where he was track manager. He won the competition for Freshman manager last year, and is the first man in several years to nab both the coveted positions. Beside breaking this jinx, he overcame the handicap of being on crutches the whole season, because of a skiing accident last Christmas...
...ogle-eyed jinx that persists in shadowing Harvard football captains finally came home to roost at Soldiers Field yesterday when it was learned that Joe Gardella who sparked the team throughout 60 minutes of the rain-soaked content Saturday would be lost to the team for the Penn struggle at Philadelphia this week...
...great Queen Isabella. For years an international art dealer, Benjamin Benguiat, had owned the throne, refused to sell it even for $25,000. But when Benguiat went bankrupt, Dealer Dan Feldman purchased the throne in a lot, priced it at $3,000. Eventually believing it was a jinx, he sold it to Dealer Osiel in another...