Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Friday prior to the match, the Princetonians, who had defeated all of their previous opponents that season by a 9-0 margin, speculated on their chances of performing a similar fete against the Crimson. The latter had fallen two years running to the defending national champs, so one Tiger racquetman thought it only proper, upon arriving at Hemenway Gym, to inquire of his Harvard opponent, "Aren't you scared playing Princeton?" "Oh yeah, terrified," came the reply...
Their cockiness aside, however, the Tigers remained gentlemen. Before the match, what Barnaby described as a "beautiful Tiger blanket" was presented to the retiring Harvard coach in a gesture of appreciation. Barnaby, himself a gentlemen, then proceeded to demonstrate his thanks. Unveiling a team which he claimed "couldn't have carried Princeton's racquets on the court without permission in November," Barnaby sat back and watched a "tremendous win," a 6-3 triumph over the favored Tigers, that allowed Barnaby to retire with the nicest gift of all: national championship number 20 and Ivy League title number 21. Quite gentlemanly...
...Tiger catcher Bill Freehan set the scene for the whole tragi-comic affair by bouncing a freak single off the third base bag. Red Sox starter Ray Culp. who had pitched out of jams in the first and second innings, dug himself in again by walking Jim Northrup...
...eighth inning of yesterday's humiliation at Fenway Park, Tiger shortstop Ray Oyler struck in vain at a Sparky Lyle slant. It was his third such failure, so Sox catcher Elston Howard whipped the ball in the general direction of Dalton Jones and third base, as custom dictates. Unfortunately, Jones was busy in the short-stop hole, retrieving the bat which had flown from the fanning Oyler's hands. Howard's throw flew unchallenged into Carl Yastrzemski's pasture where it died on the soggy grass. Yaz started in, stopped, wagged his head both in shame and disgust, and elected...
...Tiger price was right, and the mound ace was set last summer to sign a contract that would have let him finish his education. But when mono struck, Peters struck out with Detroit...