It was a historic night in South Philadelphia on Friday as the sprint football team (0-6 overall, 0-4 CSFL) lost both its season finale to Penn (4-2, 2-2), 61-28, and its record-setting 35th consecutive game.
Conference play has begun for the No. 8 women's hockey team.Accumulating a record of 1-1 this weekend on the ice at Baker Rink, the Tigers (2-1-1 overall, 1-1-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference) opened their ECAC season with a 3-0 loss to No.
Long before junior Derek Javarone pushed a 41-yard field goal wide right with 23 seconds left to play on Saturday afternoon, allowing Penn to escape New Jersey with a 16-15 win, the football team blew its best chances at victory.If the Tigers (4-4 overall, 2-2 Ivy League) had taken advantage of their first-quarter opportunities ? five possessions with an average starting position of the Quaker 38-yard line ? they wouldn't have needed any last-second heroics.
Every athlete dreams of scoring the game-winning goal as time expires. No one dreams of giving it up.On Friday night, under the normally friendly lights of 1952 Stadium, the field hockey team suffered the unthinkable, losing 2-1 to Penn on a Quaker goal that crossed the line as time expired.The loss was Princeton's second in the Ivy League this year.
Head coach Glenn Nelson made history on Friday by winning his 500th game. Unfortunately for the women's volleyball team's title hopes, win number 501 wasn't in the cards this weekend.Number 500 came against Columbia on Friday night in Dillon Gym, as the Tigers (16-7 overall, 7-4 Ivy League) swept the Lions (3-21, 1-11) in three games.
As fans and players on both sides of Princeton Stadium invoked their respective gridiron gods through silent and vociferous fourth quarter petitions, junior placekicker Derek Javarone's 41-yard field goal attempt with 18 seconds remaining in the game sailed wide right by inches, ending Princeton's hopes of an upset.
The horn blew, calling for a substitution. A look at the clock showed there to be six minutes, one second remaining in the first half.
With a chance for an Ivy crown hanging in the balance on Saturday night at Lourie-Love Field, the men's soccer team held on to defeat rival Penn, 1-0, on a Ben Young goal.
In its final home game of the year, the men's soccer team is searching for an important victory over league rival Penn.
They say a jack of all trades is a master of none, yet football's Joel Mancl seems to have found a way around that adage.In the great tradition of the Princeton scholar-athlete, the senior pursues both his athletic and academic interests with equal vigor, having fun all the while."He's a very responsible, very dedicated, outstanding person," head coach Roger Hughes said of the 6-foot, 225-pound senior.His background makes him seem an unlikely candidate for Princeton.
Friday night is about as important for the field hockey team as Tuesday night was for George W. Bush and John Kerry.With everything on the line, Princeton (7-9 overall, 5-1 Ivy League) will host Penn (12-4, 5-1) in its crucial season finale.
The adage "save the best for last" certainly applies to women's soccer, as it takes on its toughest and final Ivy League opponent in Penn on Saturday.While Princeton (14-2-0 overall, 6-0 Ivy League) has already locked down an outright Ivy League championship, the Tigers are not going to let up on the intensity.
When Roger Hughes first looked at the Ivy League football schedule for 2004, it is likely that one date jumped out at him.
When you're coming off of a season with a 22-11 overall record in which you dominated some of your toughest competition and proved a fighting force despite being unranked for most of the season, you're going to have some high hopes.So it stands for the women's hockey team, a team that saw incredible success in the 2003-2004 season and hopes to exceed that this year.
In a season marked by a newly refurbished rink, a fresh coaching staff, and six impressive freshmen, men's hockey will try to add one more relatively new concept to the list: winning a majority of its games, a feat which has eluded the Tigers for the past six seasons.Princeton looks to new head coach Guy Gadowsky for help promoting its cause.
I'm running out of topics to write about. I lost the opportunity to delve into baseball when my Yankees became the butt of the "what is the greatest collapse in history" joke.
In the midst of the presidential election flurry, media members from the eight Ivy areas headed to the polls to cast their votes for basketball pre-season picks.The men's team was the runaway favorite, garnering 14 of the 16 first-place votes.
While the 40th running of the Head of the Charles Regatta last week in Boston and Cambridge might not have stolen the headlines away from the Red Sox, one of rowing's most prestigious events still generated good news for the men's and women's crew teams.The Tigers, in town to flex their collective muscle against some of the world's most powerful teams, came away with solid performances from all 10 of their team boats.
While it's certainly too soon to throw in the towel, the women's volleyball team has found itself in a position in which one loss could effectively dash its hopes for an Ivy League title.With five games left in the Ivy League season, Princeton (15-6 overall, 6-3 Ivy League) sits one and a half games back of both Cornell and Harvard.
Like wolves in fear of the oncoming Russian winter, the men's hockey team frequently finds itself scurrying in the November month, trying to prepare for the oncoming freeze.Coming off a 5-24-2 season in which more than half of the team's victories came in the first full month of the season, the team is looking to rebound and expand its win total beyond what can only be called a disappointment.However, with new head coach Guy Gadowsky at the helm, and the part-time help of current Philadelphia Flyers' head coach Ken Hitchcock, the team believes it is building a nucleus capable of raising its level of play.The women, meanwhile, are looking to build on last year's promising season in which they went 22-11 elevated themselves to the role of national contenders.Despite the loss of some key players to graduation last season, the team believes it can continue to be factor in the ECAC.It has already seen key players step up in the first few games of the season.
