Word: jinxing
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...Lions, losing would not only break the jinx which has hexed Columbia for 72 years but might also lead to a rather dismal season. For Harvard coming up to Cornell with a one and one record would be a pleasanter, and more likely, prospect...
...traditional piece of haber-dashery, a symbol of good luck to Harvard crews for many years, is now resting on the bottom of Lake Cayuga, where the coach threw it Saturday afternoon after his varsity and jayvee crews ended the 22-year-old Cornell jinx...
...varsity crew, minus stroke Bill Curwen, left for Ithaca last night to try and break the Cornell jinx. In the fourteen years since Tom Bolles took up coaching here, Harvard has never beaten the Big Red on the waters of Lake Cayuga...
...lieutenant colonel (he jumped with paratroops into France) and ex-newsman (chief editorial writer of the New York tabloid Mirror), McCrary was confident that he could survive TV's headaches. He was also shrewd enough to know that he had a TV asset in his pretty brunette wife Jinx Falkenburg, onetime model and cinemactress, who shares his over-the-breakfast-table radio show...
...Virginia game started sunny, but the jinx brought rain before it ended. Bob Matson and Herb Mee scored for the varsity, Mee winning on a 15-foot putt on the twenty-first hole. Georgetown was another windy match, with Matson and Hubbell scoring the Crimson's points...