Princeton football (5-3 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) will travel to New Haven, Conn., to face a competitive Yale side, which currently tops the conference in scoring.
It wasn’t always pretty, but the Tigers (5-3 overall, 4-1 Ivy) got it done when it counted and came out of Saturday’s matchup against Penn with a 22-17 win to keep their hopes of an Ivy title alive.
After being embarrassed on their home field last weekend in the homecoming matchup against Harvard, it was unclear how the Tigers would respond with more than half of their Ivy season left to play.
After two consecutive years of dramatic finishes and Roman Wilson ’14 touchdown catches, last year’s Ivy co-champions will go head-to-head this weekend, with the winner remaining in control of his own fate in pursuit of this year’s title.
Princeton (3-2 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) started a series of six Ivy League games with a 27-16 home victory over Brown (2-3, 0-2) on Saturday, leaving them tied atop the Ivy League standings with Harvard and Dartmouth with an undefeated 2-0 league record.
After a disappointing 31-30 loss last weekend to Colgate University, the Tigers (2-2 overall, 1-0 Ivy) are looking to open a six-week stretch of Ivy League games strong against Brown.
It’s been almost a full month since our last ranking of Ivy League football.
Despite an impressive 16-0 first quarter, the Tigers could not hold on and fell to Colgate 31-30 in their final non-league game of the season.
While Colgate University has won eight of the last 10 meetings between the Raiders and the Tigers (2-1 overall, 1-0 Ivy League), the two times the Tigers did pull out the victory they went on to win Ivy League titles.
NEW YORK — Facing consistently inclement conditions, the Lions and Tigers fought for sovereignty of the concrete jungle in the very northwest corner of Manhattan.
“I’m still as pissed off as I was after the game, and we’re going to carry that over to next week.
After a disappointing start to its 2014 campaign, the football team (1-1) entered Saturday evening’s home opener determined to right the ship.
During a championship effort in 2013, senior quarterback Quinn Epperly became the third Princeton quarterback to win the Bushnell Cup as Ivy League Player of the Year.
The football team’s 2014 campaign kicked off with a trip to San Diego, the longest journey the Tigers have made since head coach Bob Surace ’90 took over.
Despite glimmers of rhythm reminiscent of last season, the Tigers showed rust from a summer apart in their season opener on Saturday when they headed to California to take on the University of San Diego.
Full of hopes of emulating last year’s success, Princeton football will start its season with a trip across the country to face the University of San Diego.
New Jersey’s fall breezes grow crisp and the newly-variegated leaves blow along with them.
By David Alter '73 There is a lot that Stephen Wood did not tell us in his article about Princeton football. He did mention Snake Ames, Class of 1889, as a prolific scorer.
Maybe you think of the renowned collegiate Gothic architecture when you think of Princeton, or maybe you think of Einstein or Jack Donaghy.
