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At 6 feet 4 inches and 205 pounds, with a rocket arm and laser-like accuracy between the numbers, freshman quarterback Chad Kanoff looks the part of a prototypical pocket passer.
Almost halfway through the season, six of the eight Ivy League teams are at or above .500, and at least half the league still has legitimate championship hopes. Here’s how the league looks going into week five:
The football team continued its best season in recent memory Saturday, pulling through in the second half to overcome Lafayette by a score of 42-26. The Tigers (3-1 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) have now scored 40 or more points in three straight games for the first time since 1950.
Off to one of its best starts in recent memory, the football team is back in Princeton Stadium this afternoon to take on Lafayette in its last non-Ivy contest of the year and its last home game before heading to Providence and Cambridge in the coming weeks. Stay tuned to this liveblog for all the action as the Tigers (2-1) look to continue their streak of offensive domination against the Leopards (1-3).
After a convincing victory over Columbia last weekend, the football team has attained its first winning record through three games since 2008 and currently holds a two-game win streak. Princeton’s (2-1 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) offense has proven that it has the explosive potential head coach Bob Surace ’90 desired with consecutive 50-point wins; however, with the toughest part of the Tigers’ schedule yet to come, how far that will take them is yet to be determined.
The football team outmatched its season’s first league opponent, routing Columbia by a margin of 53-7. This win, coupled with last week’s defeat of Georgetown (1-4 overall, 0-0 Patriot League), marks the first time since 1907 that the Tigers (2-1 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) have scored 50 or more points in back-to-back games.
The football team's Ivy League opener will be in New Jersey, where the Tigers (1-1) will look to come away from their first three games with a winning record for the first time since 2008. The Lions (0-2) have suffered tough losses to Fordham and Monmouth so far, while Princeton lost a heartbreaker to Lehigh before exploding for 50 points in a win over Georgetown last weekend. Stay tuned to this liveblog for all the action.
After a 50-point explosion last weekend, the Tigers (1-1 overall) look to build on their offensive momentum as they begin Ivy League play against Columbia. They have won the past two meetings between the two teams, including a 33-6 victory last year on the road. Though the preseason poll predicted Princeton to finish fifth in the Ivy League, a win would put them in the top half of standings.
DiAndre Atwater and Lavondre Nelson are sophomore running backs on the football team. Hailing from Atlanta, Ga., Atwater and Nelson have combined for nearly 200 yards of rushing in the Tigers’ first two games of the season. The leaders of the Class of 2016’s rushing attack recently sat down with the 'Prince' to discuss the highs and lows of their careers, weather forecasting with their knees and who has better hair.
Just over a year ago, on Sept. 29, 2012, I was pestering the football team’s head coach, Bob Surace ’90. We were in Columbia’s football complex at the northernmost tip of Manhattan, where Princeton had just put up 33 points, the most it had scored since the previous October, and won a road game, something it had not done since 2009.
Half of the Ancient Eight has now seen league action, and all but one team has won its first game of the 2013 season. With Princeton's Ivy opener scheduled for this weekend, we take a look at the league after the first two weeks of football:
After a disappointing loss to Lehigh in its season opener, the football team rebounded explosively against Georgetown on Saturday. The Tigers (1-1) scored seven touchdowns to dominate Georgetown (1-4) 50-22. It was the first 50-point game for the Tigers since their 55-28 win over Brown in 2000.
This weekend, the football team will travel down to Washington D.C. to take on Georgetown. Both teams will be looking to bounce back from disappointing results last week —Georgetown (1-3) lost big to Brown (45-7), while Princeton (0-1) lost a shocker at home in which Lehigh came back to score 26 points in the last 21 minutes for a 29-28 win.
The football team performed very differently in the first and second halves of Saturday’s football game, allowing their early 19-point lead to be overcome by the Mountain Hawks in their one-point loss. This graphic looks at some of the different areas in which the football team had notable changes between the two halves.
Despite an impressive performance by the football teamon Saturday, particularly in the first half, the Tigers left their first game disappointed, blowing a 19-point lead to end up losing by only one. The loss highlights a problem that plagued the Tigers all of last season and one that they will need to correct if they hope to challenge for the Ivy League title. That problem is the Tigers’ inability to win close games.Though last season was probably the best in recent memory, the Tigers lost all three games that were decided by a field goal or less. This included the first two games of the season— a 17-14 loss to the same Lehigh team and a 21-20 loss to Georgetown, whom the Tigers play this weekend. The third close loss was a more crucial one, coming against Cornell as the Big Red gave the Tigers their first Ivy loss of the season, 37-35.Their loss against Lehigh last year is the least like the rest of the bunch. In that game, the Tigers were on their way to being blown out, down 17-0 at the half, and did not get on the board until the start of the fourth quarter. Good defense and another touchdown allowed the Tigers to get within three points, but the Tigers were unable to get a first down when they had a chance to tie the game with over three minutes to go.The Georgetown loss was more frustrating, as the Tigers were leading until the Hoyas made a field goal with under a minute to play. Additionally, the Tigers were 0-3 in field goal attempts, with two of the misses being attempts of over 40 yards. The biggest problem in that game, however, was that the Tigers converted on only one of their seven third downs in the second half.Unlike the first two, the loss at Cornell was a shootout. They lost on a last-minute field goal, but in this game, the Tigers did their job on the offensive end, putting up one of their highest point totals of the season, but the defense did not do as well, allowing the Big Red to move the chains on nine of its 15 third downs.Finally, this year’s season-opening loss against the Mountain Hawks had many similarities to last year’s close losses. For one, the Tigers did not convert either of their two field goal attempts, with both being blocked. Additionally, the Tiger defense, despite playing well early, was not able to stop Lehigh on either of its last two drives.“We’re going to look at that on film. I gotta see what the issue was,” head coach Bob Surace ’90 said of the blocked kicks. “The kicks were low, and that has not been ever an issue for [sophomore kicker] Nolan [Biek].”“It was a couple busts in coverage— some guys just not being in the exact spot where they need to be,” senior safety Phillip Bhaya said of the defense’s problems in the second half. “We’ll have to watch the film to see exactly what happened."In all four of these games, the defense was unable to get a stop in the end of the fourth quarter, either allowing a game-winning score or making it so that the offense didn’t have one last shot to tie or win the game. This has primarily been due to a pass defense that has been unable to stop the opposing offense in late-game situations where the other team is focusing primarily on passing the ball in an (ultimately successful) attempt to regain the lead.What will have to happen for this issue to be resolved is working on discipline. This type of issue tends to occur because defenses tend to be more tired later in the game, making them more susceptible to blowing an assignment. This is even more of an issue if the opposing offense is behind and playing in hurry-up mode.It should be noted that the Tigers did show the ability to perform in close late-game situations at times last year. The come-from-behind win against Harvard is proof of this. While the offense played arguably its best quarter of the season, the defense also was huge, as it consistently stopped Harvard and gave the offense more shots to make the comeback possible. That is how the defense will have to play late in games in order to win close games in the future.“We’ll have to look at it on film to see if our energy was the same,” Surace said of the defense. “My initial impression was that no, it isn’t, so we’ll see if we have to rotate more guys or what that is. They were on the field a lot.”While the Tigers do not like seeing these problems return from last year, they can still be fixed. The coaches will have to instill more discipline or try a rotation as Surace suggested.However, there are definitely also positives to take away from the game. The defense seemed to do a good job rushing the passer, although it was not able to take advantage as Mountain Hawk quarterback Brandon Bialkowski was effective at quickly finding an open man in these situations. In addition, the offense had a great showing, as it consistently was able to move the ball downfield, even if it didn’t always result in points. The offense also showed resilience, as it managed to score a touchdown on the very next drive after Lehigh had completed its comeback to take its first one-point lead.“I thought that was a really good drive, and we showed a lot of heart in that drive,” Surace said. “There are positives you can take against a team like Lehigh, but the bottom line is we had to take a chance to make a statement and we didn’t.”
The Ancient Eight kicked off their seasons last weekend, and, though they had a late start, some of the Ivy League teams have already made a big impact. Below, we try to make sense of the Ivy League’s season openers:
Last year in Bethlehem, PA, the football team’s first half effort against Lehigh was not encouraging. That was not surprising, but then Princeton came out firing in the second half, mounting a comeback that fell just short at 17-14. A year later, flip the stadiums and flip the script – just not the result. Despite a stellar first half from the Tigers (0-1) where they dominated both sides of the ball and went up 22-3, the No. 22 Mountain Hawks (3-0) returned to the field in the third quarter strong. After mounting its comeback, Lehigh eked out a 29-28 victory on the road.
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