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TIME went to press last week only a few hours after the undefeated Notre Dame football team met undefeated Oklahoma-and trounced it 38-0. With Quarterback Terry Hanratty and End Jim Seymour on our cover, it seems a good time to debunk the TIME "cover jinx." If an athlete dares to show his face on TIME'S cover, so the old legend goes, he is doomed...
...Jack Nicklaus? Since his June 29, 1962 cover, which marked his victory in the U.S. Open, he has become one of the alltime big money winners in professional golf. "I was more than flattered to be on the cover," says Nicklaus. "It's silly to worry about a jinx...
...fabled Harvard jinx ended with the 13-0 victory over Yale on national television last year. But there still remains the fact that Dartmouth has never lost a game on TV. (Then again, Dartmouth never loses anyway, except in the rain...
...first 15 minutes of the game the fans at Soldiers Field thought Harvard was going to break the Tiger jinx. Princeton scored in the opening minute, but Harvard scored right back. Ted Leary tied the score for the Crimson on a close-in shot after the team had controlled the ball for a full minute in the Tiger zone...
...plays, and all but filed down his skates. Moaned Hull: "You turn away from one man and there's still another on you." With Chicago's hopes for its first N.H.L. pennant riding on him, it looked as if the 51st were a quintessential jinx...