Word: jinxing
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...Crimson wrestlers face Yale today in an attempt to break Yale's 21 year jinx over them. The chances are slim as the varsity holds only an edge in one bout today in New Haven...
THUS New York Daily News Sportswriter Dick Young last week reported the victory over Milwaukee that moved the Brooklyn Dodgers 15 ½ games out in front in the National League race. Actually, the myth of the TIME sports-cover jinx has never been more than just a myth since it first started back in the '30s. As happens to everybody, TIME sports-cover subjects sometimes had tough breaks. In most cases, they went right on setting new records and winning new honors...
...TIME'S sports jinx myth was dying, TIME'S youngest sister publication, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, reached its lively first birthday. In its anniversary issue this week, SI assays the gold in what it calls the new golden age of sports, and reports on some of its own accomplishments. SI has made some notable contributions to sports coverage in its first year: a wide use of color photography; detailed Previews of major events; the new Conversation Piece, a revealing report on sports greats in their own words, e.g., Pitcher Preacher Roe's admission that he threw illegal spit balls...
There was nothing to indicate at the time that Exeter would hand the freshman their first hockey defeat in four years, 2 to 1, early in February; perhaps it was the usual jinx, the exam time layoff. Yale had a good freshman team that year, a team that stopped 1930 at every turn and triumphed, 2-0. The "acrobatic" goal-tending of F. K. Trask was one of the few bright spots. The Eli freshman basketball team was equally as strong, and it trounced 1930 by an impressive 46-24 score...
...Wilbur Shaw made the grade: he got a car to drive on the big brick oval at Indianapolis. It was a rebuilt Miller, 10 to 12 m.p.h. slower than most other cars in the race, and it was something of a jinx. In it, famed Jimmy Murphy, winner of the Indianapolis in 1922, had driven to his death at Syracuse, N.Y., three years before. To Wilbur Shaw the old Miller was just another car, and the cocky, mustachioed little hell-raiser drove it home in fourth place...