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...lucky thing about the Notre Dame football coach, Ara Parseghian, wrote a Midwest sports columnist last week, was that he hadn't made the cover of TIME. This wry little note took public notice of a myth that is a continuing topic of conversation among journalists -particularly sportswriters. It is known as the TIME cover jinx...
...knows just how the myth got started, but it has persisted for 30 years. Any sports figure who gets on the cover of TIME, goes the mythology, is doomed to defeat-in a phrase, has had it. TIME Subscriber Ara Parseghian saw that jinx note in the sports column while Correspondent Marsh Clark was interviewing him for this week's cover. He smiled rather bravely and allowed that he wasn't worried. How ever, while there is no computerized or even uncomputerized evidence to support the myth, it can be said that someone almost always loses in sports...
Look who lost the big football game of the season. None other than Michigan State Coach Hugh Duffy Daugherty, who has had only one losing season since 1954, who hadn't lost to Notre Dame since that year and who had never lost a game to Ara Parseghian. Duffy Daugherty was on the cover of TIME, Oct. 8, 1956. Jinxed...
...nuns in convents, whose radio-side prayers on Saturday go something like this: "God's will be done . . . but please let Notre Dame win." And what about the two Indiana priests who walked into a polling booth last Nov. 3 and wrote in the name of Ara Parseghian for President...
...Parseghian put Tommy on a bodybuilding regimen of weight lifting, soon learned that there never was anything wrong with his passing arm. Last year's first-string quarterback, Tom O'Grady, stalked off the team in disgust, returned meekly, and was shifted to reserve halfback (where he has caught one pass for 9 yds.). In Northwestern's first five games, Myers hit on 72 of 108 passes for 979 yds., ten touchdowns and a phenomenal .667 completion average. Says Parseghian, happily contemplating two more seasons of Myers' passing: "All we had to do was teach...