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In the aftermath of a substantial winter storm that left a blanket of ice over the Shea Rowing Center and most of campus, the annual Princeton Chase was held on Lake Carnegie on Oct. 30. The Tiger crews were mostly unfazed by the unseasonable cold, as the heavyweight men took first in the varsity eight division, and the lightweight men and open women each took second.
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In the sport of football, perhaps nothing is more romanticized than a game played in snow. Since the Ivy League season ends in mid-November, the nation’s oldest football program rarely gets to have that experience, save for possibly a few flurries during a year-ending game in Hanover, N.H. But when the Tigers lined up to kick off on Saturday afternoon, two inches of snow covered Powers Field and much more swirled around Princeton Stadium, instantly providing a scene that was as memorable as it was bizarre.
The Cornell men’s soccer team is good this year — really good. In fact, the Big Red has had its most successful season in recent memory. Cornell has not lost in its last 12 games, and the team cracked the top 25 last week for the first time in 10 years. The Big Red in position to wrest the Ivy League title from the team it visits this week, Princeton.
The women’s volleyball team still has a great chance of winning the Ivy League title, but it must perform at its best in the upcoming matches to stay atop the group. The Tigers (14-6 overall, 7-1 Ivy League) are currently tied for first place in the league standings with Yale. With their only Ivy loss being a 3-0 sweep at Columbia, currently ranked third in the league, the Tigers have an advantage in the second half of their league season, having already defeated five of the six teams left.
The football team will return home this week after a winless three-game road trip. The Tigers (1-5 overall, 1-2 Ivy League) will host Cornell (2-4, 0-3), which has yet to record an Ivy League victory.
As the leaves change color and the weather turns colder, the college cross country season arrives at what it’s all about: championship races. On Saturday, the men’s and women’s cross country teams will make a push for their first titles of the year at the Ivy League Championships. Entering as the reigning double-triple crown winners in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track, both teams have dominating legacies to uphold.
Over the coming weeks and months, many Princeton athletes will compete for Ivy League titles and even in national tournaments. But at 6:30 p.m. tonight, three field hockey players will have even more at stake — a bid to the 2012 Olympics with the U.S. National Team.
With two games left in the season, the women’s soccer team hopes to spend fall break finishing the campaign on a good note against Ivy League rivals Cornell and Penn. The Tigers host the Big Red at 1 p.m. on Saturday, their final home game of the year, before traveling to Penn the following week.
The rumblings surrounding corruption in high-profile college sports have reached an all-time high in the last year. Every couple of months, it seemed, a new “scandal” emerged — Jim Tressel and Terrelle Pryor at Ohio State, the Willie Lyles allegations at Oregon and Lousiana State University, and the all-you-can-eat buffet style violations uncovered at Miami over the summer, to name a few — followed by the requisite indignation on the part of the NCAA and the obligatory contrition from those involved.
The women’s tennis team’s biggest fall tournament ended mostly in disappointment for the Tigers. Despite coming in with a couple of highly-seeded entrants, no Princeton players advanced beyond the third day of play at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northeast Regional Tournament as the long weekend came to an abrupt end on Sunday.
This weekend, the crews traveled to Boston for the annual Head of the Charles regatta on the Charles River. For the past two years, this event has been more than a typical regatta for the Princeton rowers — they also participate in a fundraising event for breast cancer research.
If the first game of the season is any indication of the 27 to come, the women’s hockey team is in pretty good shape. The Tigers (1-1 overall) dealt No. 8 Northeastern (5-1) its first loss of the season Friday night in the home opener at Baker Rink.
Peter Maag, a senior on the men’s track and cross country teams, finished third for the Tigers two Saturdays ago at the Wisconsin adidas Invitational, a big reason for Princeton’s impressive fourth-place finish. Now ranked ninth in the nation, Maag and the Cross Country Tigers look to defend their Ivy League title Saturday when Princeton hosts the 2011 Heptagonal Championships. The ‘Prince’ interviewed this not-so-hipster track star from Portland, Ore., to find out about his basketball prowess, his teammates and the unicycle pole vault.
The men’s hockey team racked up two dominant exhibition wins this past weekend and will attempt to further their success in the upcoming days as the Tigers travel to Hanover, N.H., for the Ivy League Shootout against Yale and Brown. Princeton will compete in a back-to-back series against the No. 10 Bulldogs on Friday and the Bears on Saturday.
The sprint football team forfeited its home game against Navy scheduled for last Friday night, saying in an announcement on Wednesday that the team had an insufficient number of healthy players to safely compete. The last game the team forfeited was a home matchup against Army in October 2007.
After a resounding 4-1 rout of Harvard, the field hockey team stands poised to earn its seventh Ivy League title in a row.
The women’s soccer team’s aspirations of winning the Ivy League have ended with two conference games remaining in the season. Harvard won Saturday’s fixture 2-1 in Cambridge, Mass., sending the Tigers on an undoubtedly gloomy bus ride back to Princeton. The hosts scored once in each half before junior striker Jen Hoy grabbed a consolation goal minutes before the final whistle.
After an impressive first half of the conference season, the women’s volleyball team came away from Penn with its fourth straight victory on Friday. After recent victories against Cornell, Yale and Brown, the Tigers maintained their position at the top of the Ivy League, still tied with Yale for first place.
