Word: cannoneer
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...visitors played alert, hustling basketball all the way, braving the combined forces of a smooth, poised Tiger squad and a raucous battallion of Tiger fans, most of them members of Cannon Club, one of the Big Five on Princeton's tree-lined Prospect...
...Cannon assault force heckled and booed the varsity during the entire contest from their vantage point behind the Crimson bench, and finally precipitated a near-riot at the end of the game when one of the savages tumbled out onto the floor and slugged Harvard captain Bob Repetto...
...fireworks emanating from the Cannon section of the stands had their complement in the shoving, pushing, and elbowing on the floor. Princeton's captain Carl Belz, the top scorer in the Ivy League, even contributed a burst of profanity loud enough to be heard as far away as the Institute for Advanced Study. His pungent commentaries on the referees' decisions earned two technical fouls for the Tigers...
...Marquis of Queensbury rules were not much respected by the host, neither did the visitors indicate any disposition to serve as Cannon fodder. Led by the crack shooting and brilliant defensive play of Harrington, the varsity broke out into a 42-32 lead after 18 minutes of the first stanza...
...Cannon loves to tell her age. ("When I get to ninety I'll become really obnoxious about it.") Her age, however, seems to be her only vanity. "I'm a very ordinary person with a very privileged life...