The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-01
VALE 'l|NX' ON DARTMOUTH HAS
 GREAT HISTORY
Hanover Boys Have Mess ed Up Some Big Chances
 to Win in New Haven
BY WILLIAM D. CLARK Ilnllea Rrsss Stan Corre1pondentl

DIX WAAnANM ASe VAtAA tUnltea Press stan Correspondent
 New Haven, Conn. Nov. l-(uPl -lThe ilnx that has stood on the Yale goal line for 5l years enc snesred derisively at even the nest Of partmouth's gridiron warriors was eissocted today by Q couple of psychologists and found to ne the iineal descendent of an intimidAted habuon.
 The jlnx business started beck in 1924 when Yale won the first game with the Hanover boys, l1SeO. They played seven games after that untlA io00. with Dartmouth Btlll showing zero but yale's margin Of victory reduced to Q respectable figure.
 After Q iayoR of nearly . quarter century, Capt Eddie Dooley led his charges out of the Green Mountains in 1924 and up to xale's six-foot line for Q first down, with tho score i4.iA and only Q few minutes Co play. The jinx straight-armed poo- lev for e 1e-yard less and the ball was being trundled about snidfield when the game ended, still 1a-l4.
 Ellis Great Run
 Every year after that the jinx has put the finger on the Indians in a biz way. Those who recall the 1929 game will remember the last quarter, three minutes to play, Dartmouth leading i2-i0, the ball on Yale's 17-yard line and Tommy Longnecker's ill-chosen pass which was intercepted by Hoot Ellis who raced o0-yards for Q touchdown and Yale victory, 16-l2.
 And in 1927, when Yale led ss-l0 ct the Half and Dartmouth pound. cd away until the last minute, tied the score, and the jinx sat on the uprights and blocked tho extra point.
 And in 1893, when the score stood Yale ll, Dartmouth iS, with the ball on yaie's 10 and everybody holiers ing for c field goal. What hap- penede The jinx gcaded Bill Clark Into trying an end run and that's the way the game ended.
 Psychologists, who are supposed to know oil the answers, bristled ct the mere mention of c jinx. sThe Yale-D Dartmouth jinx," said Theos A. Langlie, professor of psy. chology at Wesleyan university. lis 6 psychological phenomenon which belongs to the general field of gug. gestion and hypnosis. A wide ya. riety of experiments have demon- strated that confidence arising out of success brings success, and xail. ure breeds unconscious feelings os inferiority and failure.
 "Such results have been obtained on animals ranging from the lowly rates, through swine. cattle, aees and baboons to humans, normal and psychopathic.
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 'It has been shown for example that the baboon which loses It's first fight to Q stronger baboon will be submissive to weaker haboors. The effect of suggestion is nowhere more pronounced than in priuaative magic and fortune telling, where events occur largely because they are feared or expected. Anxiety, furthermore, results in yack of coor- dination and reasoning inst is, inc efficiency. These meehanisIns need not be conscious to bG effective"
 One of Xale's own arialists, ba. boondoggled with the idea c few moments and empfiatically an. nounced:
 Either you can take 1t, or you cans take 1t. Either you're smart or you're not so smart. Either you get the breaks, or you don't get the breaks. DO you think Mussolini is trying to put the jinx on Halle Bee lassie?"
 And that's jinxing for you.