Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Butch's casualness ends at the gym door. A fundamentalist who scoffs at patterned offenses ("I'd rather just play basketball") and fancy zone defenses ("In a man-to-man defense, you know exactly who makes a mistake"), he is, according to one Tiger player, "the best coach in basketball-from Monday through Friday." But when game time rolls around, he turns into a Tiger-screaming at his players, snarling at referees. A loss sends him into a paroxysm of frustration; even a victory leaves him wan and wet with perspiration. Not until the season is over...
...high time that somebody spot ted the tiger in the Ivy. Two weeks ago, Princeton's Tigers pulled off the coup of the season against previously undefeated, No. 3-ranked North Carolina. Bad weather forced cancellation of their flight south; so the Tigers rode a railroad coach for 101½ hours, arrived in Chapel Hill at 7:30 a.m. on the day of the game. They sank 65.5% of their shots to win 91-81. Coupled with last week's victory over Harvard, that was enough to earn Princeton No. 7 position in the Associated Press rankings...
There is a clearly defined hierarchy at Princeton, and everyone knows about it. Especially blind dates from Vassar. There are also rigid stereotypes, and for the most part they hold. Ivy men are the aristocracy. Tiger and Cannon men are jocks (Tiger is for gentleman-jocks). Cottage men are campus leader types. And so on for all fifteen...
...present Bicker system, by which the clubs pick the sophomores they want, perpetuates the hierarchy and the stereoyptes. Bottom clubs are forced to "top cut"--not give bids to campus big shots they know will opt for one of the top five (Cottage, Ivy, Cap and Gown, Colonial, and Tiger Inn). The top clubs are pretty well assured of getting the men they want, and during Bicker they send out their best members to get the desirable sophomores...
...With visitors from Ivy and Cottage and Tiger Inn he played the 'nice, unspoilt, ingenuous boy,' very much at ease and quite unaware of the object of the call. When the fatal night arrived early in March, he slid smoothly into Cottage with Alec Connage and watched his suddenly neurotic class with much wonder...