Title: Overall Superstitions of the members of the football team

Informant Info: Rivers Cahee -19, born and raised in Lafayette, La. Current Freshmen on the Dartmouth Football team

Type of Lore: Superstition

Language: English

Country of Origin: United States

Social/Cultural Context: Members within the football team have very different forms of superstition, ranging from lucky socks to the type of eye black they wear on game day. Patterns of eyeblack is very common, along with wearing certain “lucky” headbands. In addition, some people will write down sayings or names of loved ones on their pads or tape. All of these superstitions are very important to members of the team, and certain people feel they will not be able to play well if they don’t do these certain things.

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Collector’s Comments: Superstitions like these were prevalent in a lot of the teams we talked to, but each had different forms and variations of the superstitions.