Word: jinxed
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...story has been told innumerable times of how the Indians can never break the thirty-year streak of Soldiers Field defeats and that, as superior as they may appear before the gun, the jinx will again return to black cat them. But this spring the most loyal Cambridge prophets are wary of the mounting liabilities their favorites must overcome...
...repeat it outdoors this Saturday, Dartmouth will not only have to turn back a Varsity squad which has come through a three-meet warmup session unscathed, but must break a thirty-year jinx which has kept the Big Green victory flag from flying over Soldiers Field since...
...large number of fairly equal men on a squad is always a trouble brewer, but with the Yardling oarsmen it has turned out to be a first-class jinx. Beginning right after the vacation, Love tried every possible combination to build up a winning boat, but the crews that looked good on paper the night before could never beat their second-seeded rivals, and the number-two boat had an uncanny knack of winning...
Mort Waldstein, Sophomore left-hander, went the route--and then some--as he pitched the Stahlmen to a 2 to 1 victory over a highly toned Boston University nine, breaking a two-year jinx, in the Soldiers Field opener yesterday afternoon...
West Point's southpaw hurler, Johnny Atkinson, was wild to the tune of seven walks, but his slowball put such a jinx on traditional Harvard sluggers Buckley and Clay that he held the Crimson to six hits and pulled out with a 7-2 victory. He lasted out the entire game. Jack Schwede pitched the first five innings for Harvard and allowed five runs. Burgy Ayres finished the game...