Well, at least they got to play this one.Two weeks ago, the sprint football team forfeited its game against Army due to a long injury list.
There was a sense of deja vu for the women's ice hockey team on Friday, as the Tigers skated to a 2-2 stalemate against Boston College for the third consecutive year.
Win back-to-back games on the road? Check. Sweep the first half of the Ivy League schedule? Check.
The football team is no stranger to second-half heroics from its secondary, particularly during Princeton's 130-year-old rivalry with Harvard.
The Princeton women's soccer team saw its seven-game winning streak come to an end Saturday with a 4-2 loss to league rival Harvard.
As the men's soccer team was in the process of turning around its previously winless season a few weeks ago, senior captain Kyle McHugh remarked that there was a difference between playing well and winning games.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. ? "We had to earn everything. There was nothing given to us today," Harvard head coach Tim Murphy said after his Crimson defeated Princeton 27-10 on Saturday afternoon at Harvard Stadium.That 17-point deficit, however, fails to reflect Princeton's overall effort in the 100th meeting of the two rivals.
Princeton football fans making the trek up to Harvard only to see their bonfire hopes crushed may have bemoaned their lot Saturday in Cambridge, but, unbeknownst to most of them, a different contingent of the Orange and Black was celebrating victory just a short walk from Harvard Stadium.In a door-die matchup almost certain to decide this year's Ivy League field hockey champions and the accompanying automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, the Tigers (10-4 overall, 5-1 Ivy League) defeated the Crimson (7-7, 3-2) in the 12th minute of overtime.
Entering the season without some of last year's strongest players, the women's hockey team is out to prove that it has more than just potential.
When the football team takes the field at Harvard Stadium tomorrow at 12:30 p.m., it will mark the 100th time that Princeton (2-3 overall, 1-1 Ivy League) and Harvard (3-2, 2-0) have lined up against each other.
The women's soccer team had never lost to Lehigh as it headed into its Wednesday-night matchup against the Mountain Hawks.
The Ivy League title is on the line tomorrow, and the field hockey team stands poised to claim it.
After a less-than-stellar start to the season, the men's soccer team needed two clutch plays from a rookie defender to maintain its run of six-straight strong performances.Freshman defender Josh Walburn's 30-yard free kick in the 64th minute came during a strong second-half surge, as Princeton (3-7-2 overall, 1-1-0 Ivy League) forced a 1-1 overtime tie at St.
Consider the following statistics:1.Since the formation of the Ivy League in 1956, Princeton has won more Ivy League Championships than any other school.2.Princeton is the only member of the Ivy League to have won championships in all 17 men's varsity sports and all 16 women's varsity sports.3.In the last 10 years, Princeton has more total titles than Harvard and Yale combined.Though these facts have infinite ego-boosting potential for Princeton's students, coaches and alumni, we must not use such figures merely to congratulate ourselves.
It took just 70 seconds for the Lehigh field hockey team to realize it was in over its head. Facing a Tiger team (8-4 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) that had beaten it seven straight times, including a 9-1 drubbing when they last met in 1993, the Mountain Hawks (7-6) all but surrendered.
A soccer captain. A charismatic leader. A future marine. Coming up with labels to describe senior forward Kyle McHugh is easy.Problem is, those labels barely scratch the surface of the man who almost singlehandedly defeated Columbia last Sunday to keep Tigers' Ivy League hopes alive.McHugh was born and raised in Baldwin, Md., just north of Baltimore.
From its exterior, Dillon Gymnasium looks more like a castle than an athletic facility. What it boasts in aesthetic appeal, however, it lacks in functionality.Constructed in the 1940s, when Princeton was still a male-only institution with a significantly smaller student body, Dillon Gym has undergone significant reconfigurations over the years.
