Word: jinxes
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Harvard will be fighting a jinx today Traditionally. Army and Harvard have exchanged victories year by year, with the team playing at home winning. It's thus the Cadets turn to win Moreover Army bested Harvard in outdoor track last year and finished ahead of the Crimson the Heptagonals...
...Yale Daily News has been trying to generate some excitement with headlines like "THE GAME: 12 Year Jinx," referring to Yale's inability to win at Harvard Stadium since the Bulldog's undefeated team of 1960 smashed the Crimson 36-6. Yale's upset losses to Harvard in the last two years and the bitter memory of "the tie" in 1968 have prompted Yale Daily sports writer Randy Yates to write a melodramatic column entitled "I Hate Harvard...
...Clayton, a casualty of the injury jinx that hit Harvard during March, made his Spring debut in the half-mile, and outkicked his Dartmouth opponent on the final turn to win in 1:57.2. Freshman John Maggio, competing in the varsity 440 intermediate hurdles, overcame a three-yard deficit--the result of a misplaced starting block--and won the race...
...triple and broad jumpers. Sharpe who wrenched his knee in March, is recovering, but McCurdy says his leg is still bothering him. Pole vaulter Jim Kleiger, one of the few Crimson runners to make the trip to the Penn Relays over the weekend, was a victim of the injury jinx. He banged his foot in Philadelphia, and will be sidelined tomorrow...
...Ethyl is headquartered in two new Williamsburg-style buildings, with a painting of Robert E. Lee in the board room. Now the Gottwalds must decide how to defend their empire against the anti-lead threats. And diversifying into new fields seems to carry the promise of incurring the family jinx. When phosphates in detergents came under fire from environmentalists, Ethyl spent $2 million to study and design a plant for a substitute product called NTA. Before the Gottwalds could get it into production, the Government ordered detergent makers to stop using...