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Women's Soccer: Tigers quiet Bulldogs’ bark in first Ivy League match

Grit. The women’s soccer team lived up to its one-word motto for the season by defeating perennial rival Yale in New Haven, Conn., in a hard-fought and physical contest on Saturday.Sophomore forward Jen Hoy scored the Tigers’ (4-3 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) only goal, and the defense shut down Yale’s (2-5-1, 0-1) attackers to secure the 1-0 win for Princeton. 

Football: Brown upsets Harvard; Yale tops Cornell

Nearly all the football teams in the Ivy League competed in thrilling and intense matchups on a Saturday that saw the first major upset in league play and the near-defeat of a national champion. 

Football: Hurry-up offense pays dividends in fourth quarter

Under first-year head coach Bob Surace ’90, the football team is quickly becoming known for its fast-paced attack. A team needs more than talent for such a system to be successful; it needs to be well-conditioned and disciplined to take advantage of a tired opponent late in games.

Live Blog: Football vs. Lafayette

Men's Soccer: Princeton to play Richmond, Adelphi at home

Despite lofty preseason expectations and an opening-game victory, the men’s soccer team has fallen on hard luck. Princeton (1-3-1) will look to turn that around with a positive showing in the Princeton Invitational, featuring a Friday night match with Richmond and a Sunday game with Adelphi.

Field Hockey: Bulldogs the last test before No. 2 Terps

After a strong start to the season, the field hockey team is finally getting into the meat of its schedule. The No. 4 Tigers (5-0 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) travel to New Haven, Conn., to face Yale (4-2, 1-0) on Saturday before hosting No. 2 Maryland (7-0) on Tuesday night. It is the second time in as many weeks that Princeton has played an Ivy League opponent and a nationally ranked competitor.

Column: Do yourself a favor, watch a game

To the Great Class of 2014:By this time in your short Princeton careers, you’ve probably received your fair share of sales pitches on why Princeton is the greatest thing since sliced bread (it is). And since we would hate to miss out on our opportunity to offer you a few sips from the orange Kool-Aid, here’s one more:Princeton is good at sports. Check that — Princeton is really good at sports.

Football: Tigers set to host opener

Another season, another game with a captain on the sidelines. With senior linebacker and tri-captain Steve Cody out for the remainder of the year with to a leg injury, Princeton (0-1) will once again be forced to adjust its playing style to fill a serious personnel gap when the football team takes the field against Lafayette (0-2) in Saturday night’s home opener.

Women's Soccer: Blosser, Hoy hope to spark dangerous offense in trip to yale for first Ivy match

After a tough week, the women’s soccer team is looking forward to opening its Ivy League season this weekend. The Tigers (3-3) will travel to Yale (2-4-1) on Saturday in a game that marks the start of Ancient Eight play for both teams.

Men's Water Polo: Tigers travel South for key games

When No. 14 Navy lost to the Princeton men’s water polo team in the final game of last year’s Eastern College Athletic Conference Championship, Navy head coach Mike Schofield told the school's athletics website that it was the “most disappointing game in my 25-year coaching career. I am not sure I am still over it.” That win sent the Tigers to a berth in the NCAA tournament and gave them their first Eastern title, a fairy tale finish to last season.

Women's Soccer: Match canceled due to lightning strikes

Coming off two tough 1-0 losses to Long Island University and Hofstra, the women’s soccer team could only play half a game against St. Joseph’s (3-5) because of cancellation due to a thunderstorm. 

Women's Volleyball: Tigers turn away Temple

The women’s volleyball team made its home debut with a bang last night, knocking off Temple and halting a three-game losing streak. Close sets and long volleys kept the fans on the edges of their seats. In the end, Princeton took three of the night’s four games to send the Owls home with a loss. The Tigers prevailed 25-19, 16-25, 25-22, 25-19.

Postcard: Watching the 'Zenit' of Russian soccer

I always seemed to be confused or disoriented whenever I was in St. Petersburg, Russia, this summer. After a hasty cell phone conversation with a Russian friend, Tanya, between classes one afternoon in late July, I emerged from a metro station on the outskirts of the city wondering how I would be spending the evening. Unsurprisingly, the conversation had been a jumbled mush and the only word I had understood was “ticket.” Perhaps we were going to some kind of theater?

Column: Feature backs no longer a feature of NFL

If you own a fantasy football team (and really, why wouldn’t you?) you know the word that strikes fear into the hearts of owners just as it strikes hope into the hearts of would-be condominium renters: timeshare. More and more teams are no longer designating a starting running back and backups, but are instead using a more nebulous system in which there may or may not be a lead back who gets a plurality of the carries. But you can never really be sure who is going to get the most carries in a given game. Some teams, like the Patriots, employ an endless stream of running backs with names like BenJarvus Green-Ellis and Fred Taylor in such a way that knowing which one to start on your fantasy roster is an impossible and frustrating crapshoot.

Postcard: Summer in the minor leagues

Summer jobs can’t get much better than this. Every morning for more than three months, I woke up and made the half-hour drive from my home to a gorgeous minor league ballpark, where I spent the entire day talking, writing about and watching baseball. 

Football: As offense emerges, Peacock struts

Trey Peacock’s father wanted him to play baseball. Fortunately for the Princeton football team, though, Peacock insisted on joining his local Pop Warner league instead.

Column: Stop blaming it on the manager; it’s not his fault

For a long time, I have believed that managerial firings are vastly overrated when based on a team’s performance. The announcement last week that this will be Joe Torre’s last year managing the Los Angeles Dodgers makes this a good time to analyze this assumption.

On Tap with ... Brandon Busch

This week, The Daily Princetonian goes On Tap with senior forward Brandon Busch to learn the good, the bad and the amusing sides of life on the men’s soccer team.

Field Hockey: King prepared to reclaim her crown behind the net

With a full slate of games, one final year to finish a B.S.E degree and an onslaught of job interviews on her plate, senior Jennifer King, the starting goalkeeper for the field hockey team, doesn’t have much time to rest.

Women's Volleyball: Young squad falters at Penn State

The women’s volleyball team struggled through the Penn State Classic, dropping three consecutive games to fall below .500 for the first time this season. The team put up strong fights against St. John’s and George Washington universities but was powerless to stop Penn State, the three-time defending champions.