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Yale could be rationalized. At least Friday's 6-2 loss could be chalked up as a product of first-game jitters and the old El: jinx. But Brown...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: What's Going On? Icemen Don't Know | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

Maybe it's a jinx. There must be some reason the lowly Elis are 8-1-2 at home against the Crimson since the Bicentennial. Some Harvard-affiliated person somewhere must have said or done something really horrible to incur the wrath of the Connecticut sports gods. Home ice advantage is one thing, but the Elis have owned the Crimson...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Spouting Off About the Curse of the Yale Whale | 11/11/1989 | See Source »

Last night's eye-opener should put an end to the crimson's complacency. Why try to explain a jinx? It's like explaining the origin of the universe or the motivation behind the blue and white deodorant Stick-Ups the Eli fans threw onto the ice after Blaeser's first goal...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Spouting Off About the Curse of the Yale Whale | 11/11/1989 | See Source »

February 6: The third period lasts forever, but Harvard's smallest hockey player is bigger than life as the Crimson breaks a seven-year 'Pot jinx wiht a 5-4 triumph over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For Those Who Were Away... | 11/10/1989 | See Source »

...feeling, you know, one of those instinctive things. I followed him to Chicago where he was trying to help Boston overcome the road jinx that plagued the team last season...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: Locating Long-Lost Athletes Like Larry | 11/8/1989 | See Source »

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