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Junior linebacker Scott Britton is projected to be the starting linebacker for the football team this fall.Q: What was your ?welcome to college? moment?A: Freshman week...Q: The greatest highlight of your sports career?A: I?d have to say winning an Ivy League Championship as a freshman.Q: What is the funniest story about a coach?A: My linebackers coach (Don Dobes) once headbutted a player during a game and ending up bleeding all over his forehead.Q: Who is your quirkiest teammate?

SPORTS | 09/10/2008

'Amateur' a tough word to nail down

'Amateur' a tough word to nail down

Jim Thorpe?s professional baseball contract ? which paid the famed athlete as little as two dollars per game ? got him into a lot of trouble with the Olympics of yesteryear, which took its amateur eligibility rules quite seriously.Compared to today?s athletes, however, the most amateurish thing about Thorpe may have been his business sense.

SPORTS | 09/10/2008

A can't-miss at Myslik

Down by one with 18 minutes left to play in the women?s soccer team?s season opener against Boston University, senior midfielder and tri-captain Lisa Chinn was blazing down the right sideline.

SPORTS | 09/07/2008

Top-of-the-line stadium debuts to rave reviews

Hailed as one of the finest college soccer facilities in the country, Myslik Field at Roberts Stadium was christened by the men?s and women?s soccer teams on Sept.

SPORTS | 09/07/2008

Tigers trade stripes for nations’ colors

Thirteen current students and alumni ? 12 athletes and one coach ? competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China last month, making Princeton the best-represented Ivy League school at this year?s Games.

SPORTS | 09/07/2008

Keasey ’05 starts for 49ers

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SPORTS | 09/07/2008

Unassisted Busch goal not enough in home opener

As the men?s soccer team faced a seemingly insurmountable 2-0 deficit in the final minutes of Friday evening?s game, sophomore forward Brandon Busch gave Princeton the hope it needed when he scored an unassisted goal to put the Tigers within one.

SPORTS | 09/07/2008

Princeton sweeps Virginia opponents

While most Princeton students are getting acclimated to being on campus, the field hockey team is going to be more used to playing in foreign stadiums than on its home turf at Class of 1952 Stadium.Though it is a challenge for the No.

SPORTS | 09/07/2008

Senior duo takes Tigers past Terriers in season opener

Down by one with 18 minutes left to play in the women's soccer team's season opener against Boston University, senior midfielder and tri-captain Lisa Chinn was blazing down the right sideline.

SPORTS | 09/05/2008

Harriers welcome familiar face as new head coach

As it attempts to win its third-consecutive Ivy League Heptagonal championship, the men's cross country team will also be breaking in a new coach.Athletics Director Gary Walters '67 introduced Steve Dolan as the program's head coach on Aug.

SPORTS | 09/01/2008

Will Venable '05 promoted to Major Leagues

Will Venable '05 was called up by the San Diego Padres from Triple-A Portland on Saturday. He debuted against the Colorado Rockies this weekend, and in the three game series recorded four hits and two RBI in 12 at-bats.

SPORTS | 08/31/2008

Ohlendorf '05 traded to Pirates

Major League Baseball pitcher Ross Ohlendorf ?05 was traded from the New York Yankees franchise to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Saturday.

SPORTS | 07/27/2008

Tigers try for Olympic glory

Six Princeton rowers will represent their countries in the summer Olympic Games in Beijing this August.

SPORTS | 06/28/2008

Web update: Frick wins high jump at NCAA regionals

Sophomore Justin Frick won the high jump at the NCAA East Regional Track

SPORTS | 05/31/2008

Matheson best in Ivies all four years

As women?s soccer head coach Julie Shackford said, ?It was a season of high highs and low lows.? This was quite true for both the men?s and women?s soccer teams this past fall.The women opened the season with a 0-4-1 record, with two of the games going into double overtime.

SPORTS | 05/28/2008

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