For three hours Saturday, Harvard did everything it could to coerce the football team into forgetting about an unbeaten season and an Ivy League title.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ? In a setting that was more reminiscent of the Olympics than a crew race, 300,000 spectators watched more than 7,500 athletes compete in 26 events over two days.
Jeff Terrell and Clifton Dawson should know better.As seniors with three-and-a-half years of Ivy football under their belts, they should know that when it comes to Princeton-Harvard, the individual stars of the moment always get trumped by the history of one of college football's greatest rivalries.Especially this year, when for the first time since 1922, the Crimson and the Tigers are both undefeated five games into the season ? ranked as the No.
Another season of rowing is finally upon us. The men's and women's crews have been practicing six days a week since the beginning of classes and the annual Head of the Charles will take place this weekend.
Though devastating early season losses dashed the men's soccer team's Ivy League title hopes, Princeton (1-2-1 Ivy League, 6-5-3 overall) is looking to the final three games of the schedule to improve upon last year's six-win season.
The women's soccer team doesn't have much left to fight for. Once dreaming of an NCAA bid, the Tigers are now simply aiming to claw their way to a winning record, but they intend to go to the max in order to do so.Princeton (0-4 Ivy League, 5-7-1 overall), which has three games remaining on the schedule ? only enough to surpass the .500 mark ? will be the final matchup of an unofficial Princeton-Harvard Day this Saturday.With Tuesday's 3-0 win over American that snapped a four-game slide, Princeton's confidence level was boosted just in time for the important match against its rival.
Who's the best player in college football? Is it Adrian Peterson? Nope. Is it Garrett Wolfe? Still wrong.
When the men's hockey team takes to the ice for the first time this season on Oct. 27, Princeton fans may find themselves scrambling to get acquainted with a revamped Tigers roster.
The cold, wet weather didn't faze the women's soccer team Tuesday afternoon as the Tigers ended their four-game losing streak with a convincing 3-0 victory over American.With raindrops falling, Princeton's recent offensive drought ended just one minute, 15 seconds after the first whistle sounded when junior captain and leading scorer Diana Matheson found the left corner of the goal on a shot fired from outside the 18-yard box.Matheson's score gave Princeton (5-7-1 overall, 0-4 Ivy League) its first lead since its Sept.
For quite a long time, Harvard has had the football team seeing nothing but red. In fact, last year's win in Cambridge, Mass., was the first time that Princeton had defeated Harvard in nine years.Heading into a game that's been such a huge obstacle for so many years.
Entering this season, the women's hockey team boasts a list of recent accomplishments so extensive it seems almost unbelievable ? one that should cause each of its opponents to cringe before hitting the ice against Princeton this season.Exhibit A: The Tigers made it all the way to the NCAA Quarterfinals last year after garnering an at-large bid to the tournament.Exhibit B: This summer, two of that team's returning players ? sophomore forward Annie Greenwood and sophomore defender Katherine Dineen ? played with an elite group of 38 other under-22 American players selected to participate in the U.S.
The first, second and third times are the charm for the men's water polo team, which defeated Bucknell, 12-10, on Tuesday at DeNunzio Pool for the third time in three weeks.This victory, however, was slightly more difficult for Princeton (14-6 overall, 6-2 College Water Polo Association Southern Division) than its last win.
Duke, Northwestern, Harvard and now Yale. Besides having stellar academic reputations, these schools have another thing in common: The names of their athletic teams have been plastered across national headlines, but not because of standout performances.These teams have instead garnered attention for serious off-field disciplinary issues.
It may be hard to think of an underdog in equestrian sports, but if there is one, Princeton is it.
Quakers, or members of the Religious Society of Friends, believe strongly in an egalitarian spirit that treats women as equals.
Faced with a field of strong opponents, the men's golf team had a tough time this Monday and Tuesday at The Prestige tournament in Palm Springs, Calif., finishing 15th out of 15 teams.The tournament was attended by many schools from major conferences such as perennial powerhouse and NCAA Champion Stanford, as well as UCLA, UC-Davis, Notre Dame, USC, Cal and Illinois.Even though the field was extremely talented, the Princeton team fell short of expectations, shooting some of the highest scores it has posted this fall season.Senior co-captains John Sawin and Brent Herlihy were the Tigers' highest finishers, tying for 55th and shooting 14-over par, on a week where the individual champion, Cardinal Zach Miller, fired a tournament total nine-under par."I think that our team struggled with a lot of distractions this week, especially in the first round," Sawin said.
