Word: jinxed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been six years since a Penn squad has beaten Harvard, but until 1967, the Crimson had poor luck at Philadelphia. Two years ago it shattered Penn, 45-7. to break the Franklin Field jinx. Last year, in a "battle of the undefeateds," it tore the Quakers apart, scoring 21 points in the opening quarter and rolling to an easy 28-6 victory. A triumph today would provide needed reassurance that the Cornell and Dartmouth debacles were unrepresentative of Harvard's talent...
...notion that a TIME SPORT cover is a jinx dates back to the 1930s-possibly to the day in 1936 when a spectacular rookie named Joe DiMaggio went 0 for 5 at the plate and flubbed two easy chances in the field just as his portrait appeared on TIME'S cover. Long-memoried readers sometimes remind us that Leo Durocher's year-long banishment from baseball started with his cover in April 1947, that Golfer Ben Hogan lost the Los Angeles Open the week of his cover in 1949 and that undefeated Navy was stunningly upset by S.M.U...
Harvard's undefeated squash team broke a ten-year-old jinx yesterday by defeating Navy, 8-1, on the Midshipmen's home court...
Barnaby, commenting on Harvard's lack of success at Annapolis, said, "We're going to try to break that jinx; we have a good team, and the boys are eager." Barnaby added. "The weekend will depend upon how well we adjust to the different courts, and the different balls we'll be using...
...senior veteran who may have finally shaken his injury jinx and a sophomore who is running better than anyone expected are two of the men who figure prominently in the Harvard cross country team's chances to continue the glowing success it has enjoyed so far this year...