Word: jinxing
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Gildea was center on his Freshman eleven and seemed slated for the first team job last year when he was laid up by an injury which kept him inactive for most of the season. If he can shake the jinx, it seems probable that he will see much service on the front line this fall. He is not very large, but his scrappiness makes up for what he lacks in weight and height...
...assembled for the Corinthian Yacht Club's regatta. Time and again the Bat led at the start, lagged at the finish. Before the week was out, Sailor Adams Jr. left to join Gerald B. Lambert's Vanitie on the New York Yacht Club cruise. Perhaps thus rid of a jinx, the Bat finally won a race as the Secretary's vacation drew to a close...
...same time the Freshman team is planning to upset the 20 year jinx which hangs over the yearling meet. Not since 1907 has a first year Crimson team humbled its Eli opponents, but Captain E. E. Record's men comprise the strongest yearling aggregation in many years, while the Yale team, judging by its showing in the Princeton meet, is not as good as of past years. The 1932 events, scheduled to take place five minutes before the corresponding University contests, should in several cases provide keener competition than the more experienced University teams, as Record, N. P. Hallowell...
...with E. E. Record '32 in the hurdles and N. P. Hallowell '32 in the middle distance runs leading a powerful aggregation, 1932 seems to have an excellent chance to overthrow the jinx of the Blue yearling meet. While the Yale Freshmen bowed to Princeton, 73 to 62, last Saturday, the local first year men were trouncing Exeter and setting up some remarkable times, though somewhat aided by the favoring wind conditions of the Academy track
Coach Jones is putting fourth every possible effort to back the jinx of thirteen defeats which the West Pointers have suffered at the hands of the Crimson in the past...