Déjà vu brought fans at Princeton Stadium back to Homecoming one month prior. On that October Saturday, Princeton football (5-5 overall, 4-3 Ivy League) faced a Crimson onslaught and emerged battered and defeated 49-7.
Just one win stood between Princeton and sole possession of the 2013 Ivy League championship. Nothing was guaranteed — nothing ever is on game day — but one could have hardly expected Dartmouth to limit a 50-point-per-game offense to a total of just 24 points.
Junior sabre Gracie Stone knows what it’s like to be a national champion. “My freshman year was amazing in that we won NCAA for the first time in combined team and the first time as Princeton since the sixties,” she said.
While the weather begins to cool down, the squash courts at Jadwin Gymnasium are heating up as Princeton prepares to officially start its 2014-15 season with a home opener against Franklin & Marshall College. Last year, the men’s team finished with an 8-7 overall record as the women put together an 11-5 mark.
For the second consecutive week, the men’s hockey team (1-4-1, 1-3-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference) will travel north to upstate New York for back-to-back ECAC battles.
Princeton dropped its second straight game on the road at Lafayette college Wednesday night, losing by a score of 83-66.
Men’s swimming: Remarkable recruiting class inspires confidence At last season’s Ivy League Championships, rival Harvard broke Princeton’s five-year streak of consecutive conference titles.
The Princeton women’s basketball team won its first two games of the season by double-digit margins this past weekend, topping both Pittsburgh and Duquesne on the road.
Around the Ivies: football Only one week remains in the Ivy League gridiron season.
Junior Chris Perez won 19 matches during his rookie campaign, leading all freshmen.
This weekend the Tigers (6-1-1 overall, 4-0-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference) had a doubleheader facing conference rivals Union (1-10-2, 0-4-0) on Friday and RPI (1-9-3, 0-3-1) on Saturday.
The Tigers (5-4 overall, 4-2 Ivy League) are officially out of Ivy title contention after losing 44-30 to Yale this weekend.
The Princeton men’s hockey team (1-4-1 overall, 1-3-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference) dropped two road tests this weekend in New York, falling to conference leader Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (5-6-0, 4-1-0) 3-1 on Friday and defending national champion Union College (6-5-1, 1-4-1) 6-1 on Saturday. After the men’s squad initiated the fall campaign with a strong showing through three games, including a 2-2 stalemate against Ivy rival Yale in a nonconference showdown and a hard-fought 2-1 victory over Cornell at home, the team has since dropped its last three contests by a combined score of 14-3.
After falling to Dartmouth in its Ivy League opener back in October, it would have taken some creativity to imagine the men’s soccer team ending up sharing the league title with the Big Green.
For the second straight season, field hockey’s campaign has concluded in College Park, Md. The Tigers (8-11 overall, 6-1 Ivy League) traveled to face the No.
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.
The men’s hockey team that will defend Baker Rink this winter has changed dramatically from the one that dropped 10 of 12 home games in last year’s disappointing 6-26 (4-18 Eastern College Athletic Conference) campaign.
Princeton men’s basketball’s 2013-14 campaign will be remembered for what it could have been.
The women’s ice hockey team is off to a great start this year with a record of 6-1-1 a month into its season.
Ivy League champions, Women’s field hockey,(8-10 overall, 6-1 Ivy) earned their 10th straight invitation to the NCAA tournament with a win over Penn.
