• When the Tigers beat both Harvard and Yale in football, Princeton throws a bonfire. The last — pre-pandemic — bonfire was in 2018, and this year’s on Nov. 21 drew an enormous crowd to Cannon Green. In this photo, students prepare the bonfire.
    Anna Allport ’23
  • Many messages to Harvard and Yale appear on the pallets to be burned.
    Anna Allport ’23
  • Students unpack T-shirts.
    Anna Allport ’23
  • Spectators film the fire as it gets going.
    Anna Allport ’23
  • The band, singers, and student leaders lead the crowd in singing “Old Nassau” at the end of the bonfire.
    Anna Allport ’23
  • Class year banners hang around Cannon Green.
    Elisabeth H. Daugherty
  • A view of the crowd and the bonfire from the Whig building steps
    Elisabeth H. Daugherty
  • The tiger waves from the Whig steps. Both Whig and Clio were lit up in orange.
    Elisabeth H. Daugherty
  • Students snag a good view from the back of Nassau Hall.
    Elisabeth H. Daugherty
  • Elisabeth H. Daugherty
  • Elisabeth H. Daugherty