Tigers Seek Sweet Cleansing Flame of Football Championship
This just in from Princeton:
From: [redacted]
To: ivygate@gmail.com
Subject: bizarre princeton traditionso apparently if princeton football wins against both harvard and yale (hence being ivy champs) the school celebrates by having a huge bonfire on Cannon Green, in which students are allowed to throw in wooden school furniture/property. all sanctioned by the administration. school-sanctioned vandalism? i guess they got too much money to spend…
anyways, this came up b/c they won against harvard and the yale game is this weekend. hasn’t happened since 1995 apparently.
i just started my master’s here, so this is all news to me and slightly frightening.
Can anyone confirm?
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November 8th, 2006 at 4:23 pm
not sure about the vandalism part of it, but i do know that if they beat harvard and yale they get a bonfire. a few years ago i was at princeton for the yale-princeton game and they all thought the bonfire would be a given and couldn’t wait. then yale won in overtime so no bonfire for them. haha
November 8th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
Yes, they get a bonfire. No, furniture is not used. It’s actually terribly orderly for a bonfire. We had one when I was there. More of a pep rally (after the fact) than anything.
November 9th, 2006 at 12:20 am
yale has been v. hard to beat this year in football, surprisingly, so may be difficult for princeton to pull this off.
November 9th, 2006 at 3:20 am
this story’s from last year, but you get the point: Plans in the works for bonfire. this year we’re definitely trying not to jinx it.
November 9th, 2006 at 3:24 am
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/11/10/sports/13723.shtml)