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...jinx of twenty years will be broken Saturday if the Varsity Tracksters live up to expectations and beat the Elis, for two decades have passed since the Crimson cindermen have topped the Blue in Eli territory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CINDERMEN FAVORED TO BREAK ELI TRACK JINX | 5/23/1935 | See Source »

...jinx is after Harvard's track team just as the Dartmouth meet looms on the horizon, for Dr. Thorndike has just clapped Milt Green into Stillman to have some cinder burns attended to, and unless the injuries show considerable improvement during the week, the hurdles and broad jump star will not be able to compete Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRACK RECORD IN JEOPARDY AS STILLMAN CLAIMS GREEN | 5/14/1935 | See Source »

Lehigh broke the Lafayette jinx that goes back five years in a 68-game series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Dec. 3, 1934 | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

Harvard's Jayvee football team couldn't break the jinx that Freshman elevens have for them and went down to defeat at the hands of the 1938 Holy Cross team, 12-8, on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. The scrubs were tied by the Northeastern Freshmen in their first game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jayvee Football Team Loses To Holy Cross Freshmen | 10/20/1934 | See Source »

...game series with Yale, a system since discontinued. It tied four games, three in a row (Brown, Dartmouth, Princeton, and the second game with Yale.) In 1933 Harvard was one of three undefeated teams, though the team again found itself susceptible to the tieing jinx. The games with Dartmouth and Princeton ended in a draw, whereas both Pennsylvania and Penn State remained undefeated and untied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/16/1934 | See Source »

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