Word: jinxed
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...Yardlings will be up against a ten-year jinx when they kick off to the Blue and White, for no Crimson Freshman team has handed them a beating since 1928, when Andover bowed to the Freshmen 19-0. Since then, in seven games, Andover has won four and tied three...
...first Yale graduate to assume coaching duties at Harvard, Al Colwell, assistant Yardling grid mentor, admitted he was "on the spot" but refused to take notice of any jinx...
...five holes-in-one) and winning most of the major Southern tournaments, made national headlines last year when she won the medal honors in the U. S. women's championship for the second year in a row, and then went on to upset golf's famed medal jinx by winning the tournament. Patty Berg made national headlines two years earlier when, as a 17-year-old unknown, she reached the final of the U. S. women's championship in her first try, and then gave her opponent, famed Glenna Collett Vare, a few anxious moments before yielding...
...years the Olympian, of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, made the run from Chicago to Seattle and Tacoma without losing a passenger. Then, fortnight ago, it plunged through a flood-weakened trestle over raging Custer Creek in Montana, carrying 47 persons to death. Last week the jinx again perched on the westbound Olympian's cowcatcher. Steaming over the same high Montana plain, the train passed the scene of the Custer Creek tragedy, pulled up at Miles City for orders, then raced on for Harlowton. At the way station Ingobar, 110 miles by train west of Custer...
...small chestnut stallion who began his career as a flat racer, pulled ahead. At Canal Turn, Royal Mail- whose former owner, Hugh Lloyd Thomas, was killed while training to ride the race, whose jockey fractured a collarbone last month-succumbed to his jinx. He burst a blood vessel and pulled out of the race...