Word: tigers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Coasting along safely behind big Tom Healey's masterful four hit twirling, the Crimson Varsity batsmen jumped on Princeton's Lefty Farber, combed him for 13 safe blows and seven runs over the nine inning route, and chalked up a well-earned 7 to 0 win in Tiger-town yesterday...
...meeting of Princeton swimming lettermen, dorsal ace Albert Vande Weghe '40 was elected captain of the 1939-40 Tiger tank squad by unanimous vote. Vande Weghe succeeds R. R. Hough...
Sophomore Bennett of Cornell is another high scorer despite the fact that injuries shelved him for the final game of the year. Scofield, a fine team player and a good shot, sparked the efforts of the best Tiger five in recent years. Batchelder and MacLeod started slowly this season, and they were both hard pressed for their high rating by Columbia's Tom Macioce, a top-notch performer for the Lions throughout the entire schedule. THE ALL-LEAGUE TEAMS FIRST TEAM Pos. Name College Pts. F. Gustave Broberg Dartmouth 14 F. James Bennett Cornell 10 C. Giles Scofield Princeton...
...history of paleolithic education, delivered by a fictitious Professor J. Abner Peddiwell while he drinks tequila daisies at a Tijuana bar. Professor Peddiwell reports that the three fundamentals taught to youngsters in this curriculum were: 1) fish - grabbing -with -the -bare -hands, 2) horse-clubbing, 3) saber-tooth-tiger-scaring-with-fire (see cut). When fish became too agile to catch with the bare hands and horses and tigers disappeared, schools nevertheless went on teaching the old fundamentals for their cultural value. Eventually progressives, insisting that "to learn tiger-scaring, it is quite helpful to have a real tiger," revolted...
...Tiger captain Dick Hough, however, who provided the feature performance of the evening when he annexed the 200-yard breastroke in 2:22.2, a new world's record. Many of the Yale times were sparkling--Johnny Good's 2:15.2 in the furlong and 53.5 century should give the Crimson mermen something to shoot at. Eric Perryman and Russ Duncan provided one of the big upsets of the evening when they both finished ahead of Hank Van Oss in a 23.6 50, another mark which Hal Ulen's boys have not touched yet this season...