Kudos on an excellent January cover story (“Top Tigers: The 25 Greatest Athletes in Princeton History”).
The Franklin Collier cartoon of Hobey Baker 1914 and the Tigers trouncing the University of Toronto hockey team reproduced on the Contents page (cited as from an “unidentified publication”) ran in the Jan. 2, 1914, edition of The Boston Globe. The game was the lead story in the sports section. Baker and the Tigers were also the lead sports story of the next day’s edition of the Globe, with a photo montage and a preview of the Tigers’ upcoming match against the Boston Athletic Association. It’s hard to overstate what a big story Baker was in his day. Putting him as No. 2 in your rankings (just behind Bill Bradley ’65) sounds about right.
Kudos on an excellent January cover story (“Top Tigers: The 25 Greatest Athletes in Princeton History”).
The Franklin Collier cartoon of Hobey Baker 1914 and the Tigers trouncing the University of Toronto hockey team reproduced on the Contents page (cited as from an “unidentified publication”) ran in the Jan. 2, 1914, edition of The Boston Globe. The game was the lead story in the sports section. Baker and the Tigers were also the lead sports story of the next day’s edition of the Globe, with a photo montage and a preview of the Tigers’ upcoming match against the Boston Athletic Association. It’s hard to overstate what a big story Baker was in his day. Putting him as No. 2 in your rankings (just behind Bill Bradley ’65) sounds about right.