Word: nassau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to reliable reports, down on the Nassau campus no one speaks to cover boy Dick Kazmaier any more. It seems that if you speak to him first, you're a hero-worshipper; but if he greets you, you're a wheel...
Last week, heeding the call of the westering sun and the social season at Nassau, Freddy and Claude boarded their 104-ton auxiliary schooner Kangaroo, in Tangier and set sail for the Bahamas. A strong southwest gale was rising as the vessel rounded Cape Cantin off the Moroccan coast. The wind, heavy laden with desert sand, seized the yacht, drove it inshore and dashed it on the reefs. A surging wave flung a steward overboard to his death. Another knocked Claude's French maid Cecile to the deck. McEvoy's crewmen picked her up and lashed...
...last week Princeton grads were earnestly stacking Kazmaier up against Old Nassau's football immortals-Garry LeVan, Jake Slagle, San White, Hector Cowan and Edgar Allan Poe, quarterback on the '89 team.- Undergraduates, howling gleefully in the stands, were comparing Kazmaier to players they had never seen-Tommy Harmon, Red Grange, Chris Cagle. On the record, Kaz ranks with the best of today's amateurs: Tennessee's Hank Lauricella, Illinois' Johnny Karras, Southern California's Frank Gifford. And on the record, for the second year in a row, he is an inevitable choice...
Princetonians will probably find Jim Cronin's place the closest thing to their own Nassau tavern, on a bigger, bawdier, scale...
Actually the record shows that the "good old days" were well mixed with bad ones for the Cantabs. Football history with Old Nassau got its start on November 23, 1876, when Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia formed the Intercollegiate Football Association at a meeting called by Princeton...