Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tiger! Tiger! lacking fight, You can't celebrate tonight...
...favor of Princeton, and there have been no games since. Now, it appears, Mr. Roper is retiring, and Harvard will never beat another of his teams. So I am sending the little verse along, freely admitting that the joke is on me. Tiger! Tiger...
...Tiger! Tiger! Lacking fight, You can't celebrate tonight...
...point is here. When I composed the above, I really meant it. I really believed that nothing good could ever come of Princeton football, and that a dead tiger was a good tiger. Naturally, that view has passed, just as the dynasty of college students in whom rivalry surpassed reason has passed. I now find my little verse nearly as amusing and as pointless as the well-known break between the colleges. And that, you must admit, is very amusing and very, very pointless. Sincerely...
During the years which have followed the break with Princeton, the Crimson and the Tiger have met unofficially in minor events such as golf, polo, and 150-pound crew, but until next May the two will not have contended in the field of the major letter. Such meetings have always been without the sanction of the athletic committees of the two universities, except in cases when their respective teams have met in competition with a third party...