The Tiger Princetoniana
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Of the many American schools, colleges, universities and professional sports teams with tiger mascots, including the University of Missouri, Louisiana State and Clemson, Princeton is the oldest and reportedly the first to adopt the tiger nickname. Football players of the early 1880s started to wear orange and black stripes on their stockings, je
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03 Princeton University Campus - Nassau Hall Lions
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Tiger Inn Princetoniana Museum
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Princeton Eating Club Under Investigation For Distributing Photo
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1896-1897: Lend Me Five Shillings; & A Tiger Lily
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Tigers Who Come to Tea, and other Cat Tales…
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Tiger Inn Princetoniana Museum
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1998-1999: 101 Damnations
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1953: Princeton Tiger Paws
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02. January 2023 Postcard