Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invading Tiger booters are coming with a strong squad that earned a 4 to 1 victory over the Crimson last year at Princeton. Considerably stronger than last year, the University team is expected to battle on even terms with an Orange and Black aggregation that has lost several veterans by graduation...
Today dinosaurs are the chief delight of museum habituees; tomorrow the horse will supersede them. Already there are the beginnings of a horse mythology; this famous horse who could pull an impossible number of tons without straining a muscle, that one who was fleeter than the wind. Black Beauty threatens to become an epic. And in the present month, Mr. Will James writes the history of Smoky, a horse, and is greeted by the enthusiastic applause of critics. It is well that the animal who worked unceasingly for hundreds of years should be sentimentalized, and, if possible, immortalized. Far less...
...post in yesterday's practice, and will start in that position on Saturday. Of the two sophomores who are battling for the left hallback berth. Guarnaccia seems to have the call on French, and is named to be in the backfield at the kick-off against the Orange and Black...
...attack of the scholastically black listed team was entirely composed of Princeton plays, and Captain Coady's eleven seemed to have little difficulty solving the Tiger offense as it was put on by a team which has been drilling on it for the past week. With the exception of a short forward pass from George Crawford '28 to G. W. Dean '28, which the latter converted into a touchdown by a 25-yard run, the ineligibles were never within striking distance of the University goal line...
...anecdote: Grandfather McGehee's second wedding, to which the bride never came for a reason which he long disdained to reveal; Cousins Hester and Micajah McGehee, who stuck a pin in their candle to show whose turn it was to talk; the first Communion of Uncle George's black man, Solomon, who reported that the parson had given him the cup with the words: "Pass de goblet an' say, 'Brethren, jink...