Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...times, he could not see two yards ahead - and going straight instead of following a sudden turn meant plunging over a cliff. At Valera, Oscar had a commanding 2½-hour lead over his brother, who had a comfortable lead over the third man. Then the Galvez brothers' luck...
...games later that he received his leg injury which gave him a season-long rest, but even then he was not through with bad luck. Soon after the beginning of the wrestling season his knee ligaments were so badly torn in a match that he had to drop out of school for a year...
...Luck Change...
When he came back in the fall of 1938 his luck had changed. He won a position on the Varsity, alternating at guard and tackle during the season, which proved to be Bob Kipe's last with the Maize and Blue. That winter he won the Big Nine Conference heavyweight wrestling championship for the first time and was elected captain for the following year. As if that weren't enough to keep him busy, he also took on the task of running a day camp for boys, a job he continued after graduation by running a camp in Wyoming during...
...Yonkel the Jink ("A jink is a fellow who used to be a jinx and graduated"), the "hardest luck guy on the East Side." Dozens of people, reports Billy, "make a living by checking his selections and betting the opposite . . . When he discusses past achievements it's always 'The day I beat Army' or 'The night I knock out Graziano.' " Billy tells how Yonkel was once outjinxed by one Timothy Whitehead, who had lost $5,000,000 in the '29 crash. "That's diffrunt," said Yonkel, "winnin' from dat kinda fella...