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Before you could say throw in the towel, the Tigers had vaulted into a 32-24 halftime advantages, one which they hardly deserved, but when you've in contention for the Ivy championship, you accept almost anything...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Princeton Demolishes Cagers | 2/15/1975 | See Source »

...incredible Loughran breezed to a victory in the 1000, jumped out of the pool, dried off with a towel and then climbed on to the starting block for the 200 free. The Princeton coaches did stall the meet for 12 minutes however to give Loughran a breather...

Author: By James W. Reinig, | Title: Harvard Swimmers Sink Tigers, 62-51 | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

Against any other team, this would be cause to throw in the towel, but Brown has had a history of giving away close games in the past. This winter alone, the Bruins had lost six games by five points or less, including one ridiculous contest where they blew a six-point advantage to Memphis State in the last minute...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Hoopsters Drop a Squeaker to Brown | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

McNally's towel-clad "Kartoon Komics" frequent the Ritz Baths, a gay rendezvous complete with steam bath, tiny cubicles for man-to-man trysts and a third-rate entertainer, Googie Gomez, a thrush with a condor's appetite for stardom. As the chanteuse, Rita Moreno is a comic earthquake ranking ten on the Richter scale, though her Puerto Rican accent renders some of her lines unintelligible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Imps of the Perverse | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

Except for this time it's Jimmy Stoeckel who's tossing the towel around. Yes, the same Stoeckel who was last year's all-Ivy quarterback, the one who re-authored all of those old punting records, the player who first filled the --------to McInally gap we endure today...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Creme dela Cramer | 10/17/1974 | See Source »

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