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...Crimson men, who had the previous weekend fallen to the eighth-ranked Princeton team, swiftly dispatched Brown and Yale, 25-2 and 18-9 respectively, but found Columbia—ranked just above them nationally, at three—more of a challenge. The Lions narrowly took the sabre and foil events, 5-4 each, but the Crimson rallied in epee, putting in a 6-3 performance to take them to a 14-13 victory overall...
...women’s fencing team also came out on top of Brown and Yale, 20-7 in both, but lost 22-5 to Columbia, dashing hopes of a second consecutive year of both Crimson teams holding the title...
...real president. The president on the popular television thriller 24, which is more real in a way. While George W. Bush never got closer to stardom on the diamond than perhaps some cheerleading for the Bulldogs during his time at Yale and his partial ownership of the Texas Rangers in the 1990’s, the fictional Wayne Palmer, according to his biographical profile on the show’s official website, attended Stanford on a baseball scholarship and was even named “NCAA Baseball Pitcher of the Year,” a distinction that to the best...
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the online Wayne Palmer resume, however, is the implication that Palmer, despite being a decorated collegiate pitcher coming out of a major conference in the Pac 10, had no professional career, instead joining the Marines and afterwards continuing his education at Yale Law School. (In case you’re wondering, Wayne isn’t the only one with Ivy League ties. Bill Buchanan has a degree in English from Brown—doesn’t strike me as the type—and Karen Hayes went to Princeton...
There is a long history, moving back to the real world for a second, of athletic presidents. Gerald Ford won national titles in football at Michigan and George H.W. Bush played in the College World Series as a first baseman for Yale...