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...injury jinx which has been appearing and reappearing on the Harvard scene all year returned yesterday again and sent two of the Crimson players out of the game. Talbot, first string guard, and Faxon, tackle and center, were both hurt and will be out of the game for one and two weeks respectively...
Last year the Freshmen broke a jinx which the Elis had held over the Crimson for 20 years to win 81 2-3 to 53 1-3. Many of the men who are picked to win points Saturday come up to the University forces from that team...
...defeated Bacon, who was a heavy favorite, by a fall in eight minutes, 31 seconds. This was the only Harvard victory until the 165-pound bout was called. With the score at 12 to 5 in favor of the Elis, J. F. Solano '32 met Brodie and broke the jinx with a fall in four minutes, 25 seconds. The tables were turned successfully, for C. D. Newhart '31 and Captain Nathaniel Warner '30 took the final bouts by falls in four minutes 43 seconds and five minutes two seconds, respectively...
...more day of preparation before Harvard's first invasion of a Middle-Western gridiron, the University football squad went through a light but brisk workout yesterday afternoon. There was no contact work whatsoever, as the Crimson coaching staff was taking no chances of running afoul of the injury jinx...
Whatever individual glory the pair received last year accrued largely to Trainer who had the good fortune to escape the injury jinx throughout the entire season. That is to say he escaped all injury which kept him out of games. In the Pennsylvania game he collided with Paul Scull on a certain line play which left its effect on his masticating apparatus but did not keep him from action for any length of time. Trainer later described the Penn captain as the hardest running back he had ever opposed, certainly a tribute to the man whom many rated...