We can’t find anything about the rug, but the rest seems to follow the story told in a May 1997 PAW feature about Fox, written by A. Scott Berg ’71: “One football weekend he dressed up in a tiger costume and crashed the gates of Palmer Stadium so that he could frolic on the field with the band. A Princeton tradition was born.”
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We can’t find anything about the rug, but the rest seems to follow the story told in a May 1997 PAW feature about Fox, written by A. Scott Berg ’71: “One football weekend he dressed up in a tiger costume and crashed the gates of Palmer Stadium so that he could frolic on the field with the band. A Princeton tradition was born.”