Word: fives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With last week's victory over Navy restoring a bit of Crimson prestige, Coach Bruce Munro's team is by no means a hopeless underdog. Princeton's five-game shutout streak doesn't overly impress the Crimson, for last year Harvard had such a streak of its own and was upset by mediocre Navy...
Some Colleges, like Stanford or Virginia, are rah-rah and nothing else. Princeton isn't; Nassau men take their studies seriously and work hard on them, probably harder than Harvard students. Freshmen and sophomores carry five courses a term, and every senior (except engineers) must write a thesis-often 60,000 words minimum...
Crimson booters will oppose the very best in Ivy soccer when they engage league leading Princeton at noon today on the Business School Field. So good, in fact, are the Tigers, that they haven't given up a goal in their last five games...
Princeton has come a long way since last season. Nassau's inexperienced 1948 team was beaten, 3 to 1, by a Harvard squad that was weakened by the after-effects of food poisoning. The difference between the 1948 and 1949 Tigers can be found in the addition of five or six exceptionally competent sophomores...
...still not exempt from financial worries. The 1948-1949 Financial Report revealed an excess of almost $500,000 of income over expenses, but this surplus was gained only by eating into reserve funds to pay off the debts of such deficit departments as the Athletic Association, the library, and five graduate schools. Moreover, there is no assurance that there will be any overall surplus next year...