Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he hits Darwin and mutations, Miner yanks at his front teeth. "The saber-toothed tiger," he says, "was noted for its eyeteeth. They grew and grew, giving the tiger a tremendous bite. They could just WHANG on that prey." He claps his hands together. "But this mutation kept recurring and the eyeteeth grew longer and longer, till they came down like this"?he drapes his forefingers down over his lower jaw?"and then what happened? They couldn't get a bite. So now there are no more saber-toothed tigers...
...Crimson have not defeated the Tiger stickmen since 1925--a year in which the Washington Senators won the American League pennant...
...first 15 minutes of the game the fans at Soldiers Field thought Harvard was going to break the Tiger jinx. Princeton scored in the opening minute, but Harvard scored right back. Ted Leary tied the score for the Crimson on a close-in shot after the team had controlled the ball for a full minute in the Tiger zone...
Harvard continued to dominate play for the rest of the quarter, but managed to miss the goal on numerous shots. The Tiger goalie had to make only three saves, and the score remained 1-1 until the opening of the second period...
With the score now 8-1, the Tiger coach sat back and sent in the second-string goalie for the fourth period. Harvard rallied with three goals, two by Larry Palmer and the other by Jan Bollinger, to make the score somewhat respectable...