Word: jinxing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team coached by Tennessee's Bob Neyland at Knoxville. Undefeated Duke last week kept its hopes of a national championship intact until two minutes before the game ended. Then Tennessee Halfback Thomas ("Red") Harp's 70-yd. runback of a Duke punt wrecked them, saved the Tennessee jinx...
Dubiel's loss will be felt most seriously not only because of his ability but because of the psychological effect that it may have on the rest of the team. A jinx seems to have been trailing Harvard captains for two years now, Dubiel being unable to muster the necessary number of C's, while the year before Bob Haley was put out of the lineup on the very eve of the first game on charges of professionalism...
Hoping to break the spell of the jinx that has reigned over it thus far, Whiteside's Varsity eight will make a determined try for the Adams Cup in the Basin tomorrow against perhaps the two best crews on Eastern waters. Penn and Navy, with tech rowing by invitation but ineligible for the Cup, will line up alongside the Crimson shell and during the nine minutes that follow the stomach-twisting words "Are you Ready. Ready All. Row!", the unofficial sprint championship of the Eastern States will be won, as well as the Adams trophy...
...Haven, Dartmouth finally broke the jinx that has made defeats out of eight apparently sure victories in the Bowl, beat Yale for the first time in history...
...they played the Cubs under Frank Chance. The Cubs won the first Series in four straight games, the second four games to one (in the last of which a Detroit crowd of 6,000 set a World Series record for low attendance). Whether this indicates a long-standing Chicago jinx or whether it is a circumstance calculated to increase the efficiency of the Tigers' current campaign for revenge was another problem which last week remained unsolved. One of the few known World Series factors was that this year the Tigers are stronger than they were in 1934. The team...