Word: jinxing
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...well use that publication to predict the winner. The Reds, you see, have made five SI covers in the last year (Johnny Bench twice, Pete Rose, Joe Morgan and now Foster), and the Phils have made it just once, with Schmidt. The Reds, obviously, will get the ol' Si jinx...
...Damn their souls. If we had some of that weed spray, I would have sprayed it on them. On a loss to Northeastern--We ran, we swam, we splashed and we struggled. We were purified by the rains from heaven and defiled by Northeastern. On last year's injury jinx-- At present writing we're not a team that started thick to begin with. With all these injuries you'd have thought we'd been fighting the Vietnam war. On unfamiliarity--It might help running an unfamiliar course. When you don't know the course, you don't know when...
...THEATRICAL SUPERSTITIONS. I pride myself on not having any, none at all. I always deliberately walk under a ladder. I spout lines from Macbeth [supposedly a British actor's most terrible jinx], I don't give a damn...
Next, Harvard captain Jim Strathmeyer (176 lbs.) went up against his old nemesis Jay Mulligan. In the past, Strathmeyer has consistently bested men who have beaten Mulligan, but has never been able to finish off the Springfield grappler himself. The jinx held again last night, as Strathmeyer was pinned...
...Pereira broke the jinx to make the final score read 6-1 for Stevenson's squad...