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...away the best game it has played all season, the Crimson overcame almost hopeless odds to break the jinx which had held it winless in New Haven for four years. The day before the game Ed Mrkonich was cut over he eye in practice, and Joff Coolidge went to the infirmary with a high temperature Saturday morning. Despite the loss of these two key players, Harvard found itself after a chaotic first period to completely outscrap the Elis over the final 40 minutes, and win its second consecutive Yale victory...
Even the press enjoyed itself. Wrote Critic Henry S. Humphreys in the Times-Star: "There has been a jinx on operas based on Shakespeare's plays. With the possible exception of Otello, not one of them has held the stage. I confidently predict that Vittorio Giannini's The Taming of the Shrew . . . will break the Shakespeare jinx...
After a scoreless first half, the payoff play sent four receivers downfield in the third quarter. From among them, Substitute Tailback Rudy Bukich found Halfback Al Carmichael all alone in the end zone, hit him with a 22-yd. touchdown pass. Then, outlasting a Rose Bowl jinx that twice saw California lose to the Big Ten in the final minutes, the hopped-up Trojan defense stopped two more Wisconsin drives inside the 30. Final score, for the West Coast's first victory in seven lean years against the Midwest...
...Lucky Jinx...
...National League pennant winner has repeated since 1944, but the Giants look good enough this year to break the jinx. The New Yorkers will play most of the season without three of last year's key men--Irvin, Mays, and Stanky--but their pitching is the best in the loop...