[Ads-l] close but no-cigar scores --1928?, not verified

[Stephen Goranson]

The Nassau Herald, Princeton yearbook, 1928 page 90, according to unverified Google Books:


... prowess when Montgomery , Knapp , and Wood , in quick succession , lost their bouts in the cane - spree to the Sophomore demons ; and Cal Case's football team lost to the Yale and Dartmouth frosh by close but no - cigar scores

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