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Teams usually save the shave for the last meet of the year, Counsilman says. Otherwise you run the risk of being flat in the weeks afterwards...
Which brings us back to the Harvard-Princeton meet. Shaving was a necessity for Princeton if they were to entertain serious thoughts of an upset. Why do it now, though, if the Easterns, the championship for which almost everyone from the Eastern League "saves their shave," is only four weeks away...
...knew we had to shave to have a chance," Tiger freestyle ace Andy Saltzman said afterwards, "and we had nothing to lose." Indeed they didn't. Harvard's depth will undoubtedly carry the Crimson to a lopsided victory at the Easterns, so this was the Tigers' one opportunity to prove to Harvard and to themselves that they are still very much a force to be reckoned with in the Eastern League...
Maine, seeking fast pre-vacation times, decided beforehand that everyone on their team would shave (everything below their necks and outside their suits) for the meet...
...working hours extended from early in the morning until well into the night. Some Wall Street firms sent their employees over to the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn Heights for a few hours' sleep, then brought them back early the next morning. Barbers were brought in to shave them at their desks. "We were going all the time," says Fowler. "The older fellows used to work until 8 or 9 o'clock at night and then go to some speakeasy for drinks. They lived fast." Some also spent some time in nearby Trinity Church, where they prayed...