Around the Ivies: Football
Daily Princetonian StaffNew Jersey’s fall breezes grow crisp and the newly-variegated leaves blow along with them.
New Jersey’s fall breezes grow crisp and the newly-variegated leaves blow along with them.
Of late, the NFL has come under fire for its disciplinary policies, which have been noticeably light for players who have committed domestic violence against their significant others.
It’s unfamiliar territory for the members of Princeton field hockey, who have yet to earn a win through four contests this season.
On Aug. 4, Mollie Marcoux ’91 began her first official day as Princeton’s new athletic director.
The circumstances are staggeringly different. The game is the same. When new head coach Ron Fogarty and his Princeton Tigers hockey team face off against Yale in the Liberty Hockey Invitational on Oct.
Men’s cross country tops Harvard and Yale in season opener After a 17-year hiatus, the men’s cross country team emerged victorious on Friday in New Haven with a one-point victory over Yale in the season opening meet between Princeton, Yale and Harvard.
Princeton women’s volleyball refused to drop a match this past weekend. George Mason, Delaware and Manhattan all fell to the eventual tournament champions, who emerged victorious with two consecutive come-from-behind wins and a 3-1 advantage over Manhattan over the course of three games. These three consecutive wins bolstered the confidence of a team already strong in pace and awareness. The first contest, scheduled for Friday morning, resulted in a back-and-forth affair, in which the Tigers won the second, fourth and fifth sets.
Despite amassing 16 shots and six corner kicks, the women’s soccer team drew 0-0 with Seton Hall on Monday afternoon.
For the first time in years, Princeton cross country will confront Harvard and Yale on Friday in a head-to-head meet.
Marshal your firm. ’Tis the glorious season of association football, colloquially known as soccer.
In search of its first win of the regular season, the men’s soccer team (0-1-1) battled to a scoreless draw with St.
Tigers drop two and win one at Temple Invitational While most of their fellow students reacquainted themselves with campus, the women’s volleyball team resumed action at nearby Temple University.
After suffering a heartbreaking double-overtime loss against Fairleigh Dickinson University in its first match of the regular season, the men’s soccer team (0-1-0) will look to rebound on Wednesday night as it takes on St.
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.
Five Orange and Black sides topped the Ivy League last year. Julia Ratcliffe, a hammer thrower entering her junior year, topped all national competition en route to an NCAA Championship.
Is there such a thing as athletic perfection? After every performance, even the best athlete, looking back, will see a point along the road of training and competition where she could have moved a little faster, pushed a little harder or even been a little smarter.
Let’s clear something up. After Michael Sam became the first openly gay player in the NFL earlier this month, and a video of him getting the news and kissing his boyfriend went viral, there was backlash against what was perceived as a double standard.
The Princeton track and field team knew it had recruited a special talent even before sophomore Julia Ratcliffe stepped onto its campus in September 2012.
After earning Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year honors and breaking the NCAA record for most consecutive completions, junior quarterback Quinn Epperly can add another title to his ever-growing list: the Daily Princetonian’s Male Athlete of the Year. “For it to turn out the way it did was very special and definitely something that I didn’t see coming,” Epperly said of his miraculous 2013 season, which was marked by some of the most exciting Princeton football games in recent history and culminated in a share of the Ivy League championship. He was not the only one — Epperly split time with fellow then-sophomore Connor Michelsen in 2012 but was seen as a clear choice for the backup role going into 2013.