Word: jinxing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game series with Yale, a system since discontinued. It tied four games, three in a row (Brown, Dartmouth, Princeton, and the second game with Yale.) In 1933 Harvard was one of three undefeated teams, though the team again found itself susceptible to the tieing jinx. The games with Dartmouth and Princeton ended in a draw, whereas both Pennsylvania and Penn State remained undefeated and untied...
...into a very promising lot. And the spectre of tragedy has already invaded the precincts of Soldiers Field. If it wasn't enough for Coach Eddie Casey to lose all but six of his Varsity men of last year by graduation or other difficulties, the regular Harvard injury jinx had to open its customary season with a terrible sock...
Fifty-five, fat, still recognizable by his cigar, Barney Oldfield last week engaged in his first race in 16 years, an absurd "Jinx Derby" to advertise the Chrysler exhibit at Chicago's Century of Progress, where Oldfield heads a staff of 20 exhibition drivers. Oldest car in the race was an 1896 Tallyho made by the Chicago Vehicle Co., which had not been moved for 34 years. Others in the field of 13 were an 1897 Stanley Steamer, a chain-drive International, a 1904 one-cylinder Cadillac, a rope-drive 1902 Holsman, a 1902 Lincoln truck-roadster, a 1907 Staver...
...jinx perversely continued to cling to the coattails of Col. Abraham Lazard ("Abe") Shushan of New Orleans and his airport last week. Week before, during the Mardi Gras weekend, the new $4,000,000 field on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain was to have been dedicated with a four-day air meet. The airport, far superior to any other field in the U. S., had been built by the Orleans Levee Board of which Col. Shushan, good friend of Senator Huey Long, is president. In gratitude for his loyalty Senator Long permitted the new field to be named...
Against Purdue, Notre Dame again presented the pathetic spectacle of a team fighting so frantically against a "jinx" that it forgot the fundamentals of football. It tried to pass from its own 15-yd. line. A Purdue guard intercepted the pass, trotted across the goal. A Notre Dame fumble let Purdue forward pass to a second touchdown. Sheer demoralization permitted the third score. Three times Notre Dame penetrated beyond Purdue's 10yd. line, once to the 1-yd. line, only to collapse. It was Notre Dame's fourth shut-out of the season...