The women?s cross country team passed its first big test of the season Friday at the Notre Dame Invitational.
When the men?s rugby team looks back on this season, it will point to Saturday?s 11-5 home victory over Columbia as the game when the players came together as a unit.
Despite its best efforts to start the Collegiate Sprint Football League season on a positive note, the sprint football team (0-3 overall) found itself outmatched Friday night, suffering a 57-0 loss to Army (3-0). For the second straight week, the Tigers found themselves in an early hole.
The women?s volleyball team fought hard in its Saturday Ivy League opener, but ultimately the obstacles of returning only three starters and adjusting to the style of a new head coach stood between them and a win.
Early in the first half on Saturday, the women’s soccer team was on pace to pick up its first conference win of the season. But after taking a 1-0 lead, the Tigers (3-6-1 overall, 0-2 Ivy League) were unable to close the door, eventually falling 2-1 to Dartmouth (5-4, 2-0) in double overtime.
With passes skidding short on the wet grass, shots stopping in puddles on the field and goals slipping through the goalies’ gloves, the men’s soccer team (4-4 overall) played a different kind of game at Dartmouth (6-2-1) on Saturday evening.
The No. 7 field hockey team trampled Columbia, 4-0, on Friday at Class of 1952 Stadium before trouncing No. 5 Connecticut, 3-1, on Sunday.
In the bowels of Princeton Stadium after the football team’s pummeling on Saturday at the hands of Columbia, head coach Roger Hughes was appropriately subdued.
If this past weekend was indicative of anything, it’s that the men’s water polo team can reach the NCAA Final Four this year, but only if it wants it. In the seniors’ last regular-season games in DeNunzio Pool, No. 19 Princeton (7-5 overall, 4-1 Collegiate Water Polo Aassociation Southern Division) controlled No. 10 Navy (9-6 overall, 1-2 CWPA Southern Division) on Saturday evening in a 7-3 upset, and then defeated No. 18 Bucknell (10-6 overall, 4-1 CWPA Southern Division), 12-5, on Sunday afternoon.
The stats tell the story of the game: 66 penalty yards, four turnovers on downs, two fumbles lost inside the 20-yard line, one interception. But the most painful numbers were those on the scoreboard: Columbia 38, Princeton 0.
It’s been eight years since the men’s soccer team won the Ivy League Championship, and senior midfielder and captain Devin Muntz said the Tigers are ready to reclaim their former glory. It starts this Saturday, as Princeton (4-3) travels to Dartmouth (5-2-1) for the Ivy League season opener.
Princeton opens its Ivy League season this Saturday at home against Columbia. The Tigers (1-1) opened the season with a 38-7 loss at home to The Citadel and picked up their first win last weekend at Lehigh, when they beat the Mountain Hawks, 17-14.
Let’s try this again.The women’s soccer team will attempt to claim its first Ivy League victory this Saturday when it travels to Hanover, N.H., to take on Dartmouth (4-4 overall, 1-0 Ivy League).
In posting a convincing 5-2 victory over Yale last Saturday, the field hockey team sent a clear message to the rest of the Ivy League: The road to the Ancient Eight title runs through Princeton, N.J.
The men’s and women’s cross-country teams will each send their top nine runners to South Bend, Ind., for the 54th running of the Notre Dame Invitational this Friday.
Sixty-eight hot dogs in 10 minutes.
Scott Britton generally isn’t the biggest player on the field. He’s rarely the fastest. But if it’s a question about energy, you’d be hard-pressed to find a linebacker in the Ivy League who plays at a more frenetic and relentless pace than Britton, Princeton’s senior co-captain and returning all-Ivy League performer.
Do you think Mary from ?There?s Something About Mary? has ever regretted her decision to be with Ted over Brett Favre?
Wearing the white jersey of the American national soccer team while surrounded by a crush of green, the color of the Mexican squad ? I felt particularly alone.
After a tough loss to Yale in its Ivy League opener, the women’s soccer team got back on track Tuesday night against Fairfield (6-5) winning its first road game of the season, 1-0, off a goal from senior defender and tri-captain Melissa Seitz.
