Word: jinxed
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...addition to dealing with Army, the Crimson has a jinx to break. For the last three years, whoever won the Harvard-Army dual meet has lost the Heps. This year Harvard won the dual meet...
...capital for India's sprawling Punjab state. Though shantytowns have long since sprung up alongside its lovely cubes and rectangles, Chandigarh (pop. 150,000) still stands out like an exquisite jewel in the blazing Punjab plain. From the first, however, it has been a jewel with a jinx -accursed, like the Hope diamond...
Princeton has the advantage of the "Baker Rink jinx." But even if jinxes are not necessarify passed on from one Crimson team to the next, there is still another Harvard fault that could play right into the Tigers' paws. Harvard has more trouble than almost any team in the East in trying to hang on to two and three goal leads. Just this winter, it has allowed B.C. to rally for four goals. Clarkson for two, McGill for four and Penn for two-twice in the same game...
...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...