Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Down a Manhattan pier to meet the Aquitania as she docked last week, moved a ponderous prodigy of a man. Customs inspectors looked his way and touched their caps from a distance. There could be no mistaking who it was-William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards, the 300-Ib. onetime Princeton footballer who, under President Wilson, used to be Manhattan's collector of internal revenue. Obviously, Mr. Edwards had come down to meet friends and, by adumbration of his old authority, facilitate their passage through the customs shed...
...Unbeaten teams at this point: Iowa, Carnegie Tech, Georgia Tech, Florida, Tennessee, Southern California (one tie), Wisconsin (one tie), Princeton (two ties)." [TIME...
Football writers are sentimental artists who enjoy calling things what they are not. Thus they speak of the Princeton team as "Tigers," though no live, wild tiger has been seen near New Jersey for many millions of years and they refer to the team which plays for the University of Nebraska as "Cornhuskers," merely for want of a better name. Last week, Coach Bearg and the Nebraska squad boarded a special train for West Point; on the squad were 34 men, though one of them, Willard Urban, who lost a coin toss to be the last man taken...
Without the aid of little Coach Roper's cards to help them, Princeton's Wittmer and Miles and Requardt paused at crucial moments; "Whitey" Lloyd of the Navy did not, scoring a field goal from placement and a touchdown from Navy's 24 yard line. Thus Navy beat Princeton, which no other team has done this year...
...Vance of the Yale Law School, will enter into debate with E. A. Hausman 3L on a question of compulsory insurance. The subject of this contest of words will be: "Resolved, That compulsory insurance be enacted." Professor Vance will support the proposition and Hausman, a graduate of Princeton, will oppose this stand. Hausman has been called the undefeated intercollegiate debating champion of America...