TBT: Epic Princeton Snowball Fights

.....It's Throwback Thursday!Today with a high of 45 degrees, summer has begun in Princeton, NJ. But for those of you missing our biweekly snowstorms of days past...Did you know Princeton used to hold an annual freshman-sophomore snowball fight?The Annual Freshman-Sophomore Snowball Fight of 1891/1892. Check out dem hats. And dearth of snow on the ground? I would just like know why Princeton chose to continue celebrating cane spree, instead of this more glorious tradition?Maybe this picture explains it.....The 1892-1893 freshman-sophomore snowball fight apparently led to some pretty serious damages for Darwin R. James, John P. Poe , and Arthur L. Wheeler. It seems that perhaps it was more of a rock fight? #Workhardplayhard  Also, there was a time when Princeton snowball fights made the New York Times? 1892 must have been a good year for journalism.Citation: Snowball fights; undated; Historical Photograph Collection, Campus Life Series, Box SP15; Princeton University Archives, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.