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The football team clinched a share of the Ivy League title and brought Princeton its second consecutive bonfire with a 59-23 victory over Yale Saturday.
The football team faces the last big test of its season Saturday at Princeton Stadium, as Yale comes to town. This rivalry game, always heated, is more important than ever for the Tigers (7-1 overall, 5-0 Ivy League) this season. If they defeat the Bulldogs (5-3, 3-2), the Tigers will be one game away from going perfect in the Ivy League and winning their first league championship since 2006. In fact, a Tiger win combined with a loss by Harvard to Penn would give Princeton the title with a week left in the season. If Princeton and Harvard both win, the Tigers will still clinch a share of the title.
On Homecoming Saturday, the football team has a chance to earn its second straight bonfire. After defeating Harvard in a triple overtime thriller Oct. 26, the Tigers (7-1 overall, 5-0 Ivy League) face Yale in a game that could earn them a spot in Princeton history.
On Monday, junior quarterback Quinn Epperly was named to the Walter Payton Award Watch List. The Sports Network, one of the world’s largest sports information wire services, presents the major awards in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision, also known as FCS, at the end of each season. These include the Walter Payton Award for the best offensive player, the Buck Buchanan Award for the best defensive player and the Eddie Robinson Award for the coach of the year. Epperly joins a teammate on these watch lists for the first two awards, as senior defensive tackle Caraun Reid has been on the Buck Buchanan Award Watch List since the beginning of the season.
In an interview at the beginning of the school year, Penn President Amy Gutmann spoke to the state of Quaker athletics. The comparison to Princeton athletics came up.
The football team is in the City of Brotherly Love this weekend looking to spoil Penn's Homecoming game at Franklin Field. The Tigers (6-1 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) need to win out in order to win the Ivy title while the Quakers (4-3, 3-1) are one game behind. A win for the home team would mean at least a two-way tie at the top of the Ivy League, while a Princeton win would mean that only Yale and Dartmouth stand between the Tigers and their first Ivy Championship since 2006.
Throughout the week, Sports Editor Stephen Wood exchanged emails with Ian Wenik of the Daily Pennsylvanian about the upcoming Princeton-Penn football game. Here's how their conversation went:
Last season, the football team took the field against Penn trying to keep its hopes of an Ivy League title alive, only to have them dashed by the eventual champions. Though the Tigers (6-1 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) control their own destiny in the hunt for the championship this year, they will need to beat the Quakers (4-3, 3-1) Saturday to keep it that way.
With three games left in the season, several teams could still win the Ivy League title. It all depends on Princeton, however, as the Tigers have surged back to relevance and now control their own destiny. Here’s how the Ancient Eight looks as we get set for an exciting end to the 2013 football season:
After being named the Sports Network FCS National Offensive Player of the Week and Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week following his record-breaking performance in Princeton’s triple-overtime 51-48 win over Harvard last weekend, junior quarterback Quinn Epperly continued to break records. Epperly completed 29 consecutive passes to start Princeton’s 53-20 victory over Cornell on Saturday, setting a new FCS record. With this win and Penn’s loss to Brown, the Tigers (6-1 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) now stand alone atop the Ivy League standings.
After a huge win in Harvard and having won five straight games, the Tigers return to host the Cornell Big Red. The Tigers (5-1 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) have lost three straight contests to the Big Red and will need to break that streak in order to stay on track for an Ivy League title. The game is available to be viewed on ESPN3.
The football team needed a touchdown to win. As Princeton was losing to Harvard at the tail end of a wild game, junior quarterback Quinn Epperly looked for senior receiver Roman Wilson in the corner of the end zone, and as Wilson came down, he sealed an improbable victory.
Unbeaten in the Ivy League, the football team is in Cambridge to take on undefeated No. 22 Harvard. The Tigers (4-1 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) have not won here since 2005, but the Crimson (5-0, 2-0) is more likely to be thinking about last year, when Princeton scored 29 unanswered points in the final 12 minutes to defeat its rival. Tensions will be high as junior quarterback Quinn Epperly and senior receiver Roman Wilson, the men responsible for the final touchdown of that game, face the Crimson again, and the stakes will be high as well - the winner of this game will leave Harvard Stadium with at least a share of the top spot in the league.
Earlier this week, Sports Editor Stephen Wood and Jacob D. H. Feldman, Football Beat Writer of The Harvard Crimson, exchanged emails about the upcoming Princeton-Harvard football game. Here's what they said about Saturday's game, which comes a year after the Homecoming comeback which defined Princeton's 2012 season:
The football team will travel to Cambridge this weekend hoping to repeat one of the greatest upsets in Princeton history. The Tigers won on an improbable touchdown throw from now-junior quarterback Quinn Epperly to senior wide receiver Roman Wilson last time they played Harvard, shocking the undefeated Crimson and breathing life back into the football program.
After an abysmal first quarter where nothing seemed to be going in its favor, the football team got some momentum going in the second quarter and went on to score 39 unanswered points to defeat Brown 39-17 Saturday.
The Tigers (3-1 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) will play their final six games of the season against Ivy League opponents, starting with a trip to Providence to face Brown (3-1, 0-1) this weekend. Despite currently being part of a three-way tie for last in the Ivy League, Brown has won its last two games, and its only loss this season was to Harvard, who stands atop many Ivy League statistical categories.