Word: jinxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jinx Worries...
...hard, never busting the Yale line, the game swaying back and forth with no scoring. Then, with two minutes to go, Yale took over on a punt at midfield, and worked down quickly. Booth stopped back and kicked a field goal, and with that kick cracked his personal jinx and ruined the record of a great Harvard team...
...this precision in the business of football does not make Art the perfect scientific man. He is, in fact, quite superstitious. He will not sit in a certain chair at the Monday morning Gridiron Club luncheon because he thinks it is a jinx. The last time he sat in it, his team ended up the week by losing to Connell, 40 to 6. He doesn't want pictures of the team taken in game uniforms--another jinx. He was even afraid this very article might be a jinx, until he was assured that a story on the rival coach, Herman...
...Yonkel the Jink ("A jink is a fellow who used to be a jinx and graduated"), the "hardest luck guy on the East Side." Dozens of people, reports Billy, "make a living by checking his selections and betting the opposite . . . When he discusses past achievements it's always 'The day I beat Army' or 'The night I knock out Graziano.' " Billy tells how Yonkel was once outjinxed by one Timothy Whitehead, who had lost $5,000,000 in the '29 crash. "That's diffrunt," said Yonkel, "winnin' from dat kinda fella...
Coach RIP ENGLE (shown here with captain NORM IACUELE) will be out to crack a jinx which has so far kept him victory-less on Soldiers Field...