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Princeton University alum Lisa Bryant '93, 21, had just graduated when she headed off for an Army training program. Having completed the Army's R.O.T.C. program at Princeton, Bryant was a lieutenant. She was only intending to spend the summer there before a more permanent assignment, but she never got to leave Fort Bragg.

On July 10, 1993, Sergeant 1st Class Ervin Graves, 33, asked Bryant to dance multiple times, and each time, she turned him down. In response, he followed her and attacked her. The events ultimately resulted in Graves's conviction for murder and attempted rape in a court martial trial. Graves had reportedly shot Bryant because she resisted him.

At Princeton, Bryant was captain of the cheerleading squad (shown here in her cheerleading uniform). She wrote a senior thesis on Army families.

Undergraduate Alumni Records (AC199)

#1990s #Princeton #cheerleader #cheerleading #crime #military #ROTC #sports #Princetonsports #athletics #PrincetonU #Princeton University #Lisa Bryant #Ervin Graves

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On tour today. Visiting the famous @princetonsports in Columbia. #ski #snowboard #ontour (at Princeton Sports)

#snowboard #ontour #ski

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Tiger Tuesday: The Princeton tiger dances at a football game, ca. 1964.

Photo from 1965 Bric-a-Brac

The entire Tiger Tuesday series

#1960s #Princeton #PrincetonU #Princeton University #tiger #TigerTuesday #football #athletics #sports #Princetonsports

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Although the first intercollegiate American football game was infamously played on Princeton's campus in 1869, for the first few years, it would have been unrecognizable as American football to most who know the game today. Samuel Cowart, Class of 1876, described an incident that occurred in a game with Yale on December 15, 1873, when the ball got caught between teams and popped when both sides kicked it at the same time: “It was a spherical/heavy rubber ball, blown up with a key. They had to take a team of horses and go back to New Haven, in order to get another football.”

Photo: The 1873 Princeton football team with its round ball in front of the man in the top hat. Historical Photograph Collection, Campus Life Series (AC112), Box LP36, Image No. 2522.

#sports history #On This Day #1870s #football #American football #Princeton #Yale #quote #Princetonquote #OnThisDay #athletics #sports #Princetonsports

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Throwback Thursday: Locker room, Princeton-Harvard football game, October 31, 1893.

Historical Photograph Collection, Student Albums Series (AC067), Box 85.02

#1890s #Princeton #Harvard #locker room #football #shoes #uniforms #sports #athletics #TBT #Throwback Thursday #Princetonsports

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Throwback Thursday: Princeton University basketball team, ca. 1912.

Historical Photograph Collection, Student Albums Series (AC061), Box 127

#1900s #basketball #team photo #Princeton #PrincetonU #Princeton University #athletics #TBT #Throwback Thursday #sports #Princetonsports

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Program for Yale-Princeton baseball game, June 5, 1909. (Princeton lost, alas, 6 to 0.)

Athletic Programs Collection (AC042), Box 13, Folder 8.

#1900s #baseball #Princeton #Yale #sports #athletics #Princetonsports #PrincetonU #Princeton University

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Tiger Tuesday: In 1894, Princeton lost a football match against the University of Pennsylvania, who scored 12 against Princeton’s 0. It was, the Princetonian reported, “a game devoid of brilliant plays on either side, and characterized by many tedious delays” in which “Every man on Princeton's team played pluckily.”

After the defeat, Emory Leyton Ford, Class of 1896, posted this cartoon in his scrapbook.

Scrapbook Collection (AC026), Box 199

The entire Tiger Tuesday series

#tiger #TigerTuesday #1890s #football #Princeton #Penn #University of Pennsylvania #sports #Princetonsports #athletics

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Special orders had been issued by our careful President, that we should have no wine, so Anthony [Simmons] in order to give us something in which to drink the health of our guests, provided a weak solution of claret and water, for the occasion. This delightful mixture was dignified by the name of ‘plush beverage.’ There is now a great demand for it, but alas Anthony has passed away and the receipt has departed with him.

Athletics at Princeton: A History, on Princeton’s baseball team’s celebration of a victory over Yale on May 4, 1867

#1860s #temperance #Princeton #baseball #athletics #Yale #Anthony Simmons #sports #Princetonsports #quote #princetonquote

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Throwback Thursday: Princeton's 1880 baseball team--but look a bit closer. The fellow in the back row, center, has had his head replaced after the fact. We're not the only generation that alters photos!

Historical Photograph Collection, Student Photograph Albums (AC061, Box 143).

#1880s #baseball #Princeton #team photo #athletics #sports #Princetonsports #Throwback Thursday #TBT #Photography

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Throwback Thursday: A series of murals by artist William Yarrow in 1935 once adorned the Trophy Room in Princeton University's gymnasium. All that remains of them, following a fire in 1944, are photographs. Here is a representation of a baseball game from the mural series.

Joseph Raycroft Papers (AC146), Box 7, Folder 7

#baseball #Princeton #mural #art #Princetonarts #William Yarrow #athletics #sports #Princetonsports #TBT #ThrowbackThursday

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Tiger Tuesday: Princeton’s tiger rides Bucky the Bison on the cover of the Princeton-Bucknell football program, September 29, 1984.

Athletic Programs Collection (AC042), Box 10

The entire Tiger Tuesday series

#1980s #tiger #TigerTuesday #Princeton #Bucknell #football #PrincetonU #Princeton University #sports #athletics #mascot #cartoon tiger #Bucky the Bison #Bison #Princetonsports

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The Mutuals were attired in their new uniform, of a dark slate color, and presented a very neat appearance, while the Princeton boys, unlike most college clubs, wore a variety of costumes.

The New York Herald, observing that Princeton’s baseball team did not have  uniforms, May 17, 1869

Princeton's baseball team, ca. 1868. Historical Photograph Collection, Campus Life Series (AC112), Box LP27, Image No. 1980.

#1860s #baseball #uniforms #Princeton #sports #OnThisDay #athletics #quote #Princetonquote #Princetonsports

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Tiger Tuesday: Program for the Army v. Princeton football game, October 17, 1981.

Athletic Programs Collection (AC042), Box 10

The entire Tiger Tuesday series

#1980s #Army #Princeton #football #program #tiger #TigerTuesday #donkey #sports #Princetonsports #athletics #cartoon tiger

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Tiger Tuesday: This is another of the editorial cartoons that Emory Leyton Ford, Class of 1896, posted in his scrapbook about a significant loss in football. In 1894, Princeton lost a match against the University of Pennsylvania, who scored 12 against Princeton’s 0. Here, the “bad week for tigers” shown in the cartoon includes not just Princeton, but also Tammany Hall, a political powerhouse in New York that pretty well ran the Democratic Party locally and was represented by a tiger much in the same way that donkeys represent Democrats and elephants represent Republicans today. The Tammany candidate for mayor, scandal-plagued Hugh Grant, lost to William Strong, who ultimately catapulted a new face in the Republican party when he nominated a new, anti-corruption police commissioner: Theodore Roosevelt. Thus, Princeton’s loss was only one major defeat for tigers in the fall of 1894.

Scrapbook Collection (AC026), Box 199

The entire Tiger Tuesday series

#1890s #tiger #TigerTuesday #Princeton #football #Tammany Hall #New York #election #mayor #Penn #Pennsylvania #athletics #Princetonsports #Theodore Roosevelt

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Throwback Thursday: This ad for Fox’s Puttees appeared in Princeton University’s 1921 Bric-a-Brac.

#1920s #Puttees #ad #vintage ad #Princeton #sports #PrincetonU #Princeton University #athletics #Princetonsports #TBT #ThrowbackThursday