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Potent Crimson running game spoils football's Homecoming

Potent Crimson running game spoils football's Homecoming

"We haven't been a dominant team," Harvard head coach Tim Murphy said. "We've just been an extremely resiliant, mentally tough football team."Based upon the Crimson's performance during Saturday's 39-14 win against Princeton (4-2 overall, 2-1 Ivy League), Murphy may be guilty of understatement.

SPORTS | 10/31/2004

Men's water polo ensures undefeated league record

For most Princeton students, the first few days of Fall Break are a time of relaxation far removed from the stress and late nights of Midterm Week.

SPORTS | 10/31/2004

Heps a tough time for cross country

For cross country, a Friday meet in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx turned out to be anything but a walk in the park.Both the Princeton men's and women's cross country teams had weak performances as Columbia cruised to a sweep of the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships."I felt like a guy who had never run a day in his life," senior Austin Smith said.Smith placed 13th, with a time of 25:13 over the eight-kilometer course and finished second for the Tiger men.

SPORTS | 10/31/2004

My Red Sox finally didn't blow their chance for a ring

The Curse of the Bambino is over. The dark, ominous clouds that had been hanging over the Boston Red Sox organization are now gone.

SPORTS | 10/31/2004

Missed extra point dooms football in comeback bid vs. Cornell

Maybe the football team didn't deserve to win this game. But it was an awfully painful way to lose.After being thoroughly outplayed for 40 minutes by Cornell, Princeton scored two touchdowns to close the gap to 21-20 with six minutes, 48 seconds to play.

SPORTS | 10/31/2004

Men's water polo wins Southern Championship

"There is do or do not, there is no try," said Yoda of the epic Star Wars series. This Fall Break the Princeton men's water polo team chose to do, winning all six of its games and taking the Collegiate Water Polo Association Southern Championships title in typically dramatic fashion.The score was tied at eight with just a minute and a half left in the finals of the Southern Championships.

SPORTS | 10/31/2004

Four years of winless football have not dampened Bakke's college experience

There are many ways to define victory, not all of them straightforward.For most Princeton students, the achievements of the sprint football team over the past five years wouldn't fall under any definition of that particular v-word, but for senior quarterback Dennis Bakke, his involvement with the team has won him something more important than any single game ever could.Bakke, a captain in his fourth year on the team, is a Wilson School major who plans on writing his thesis on the riveting topic of foreign policy of the U.S.

SPORTS | 10/21/2004

Cheerleading attracts brave souls only

Despite his muscular six-foot, one-inch, 225-pound frame and ideal-sports-star name, senior Rob Roberts is not a football player.

SPORTS | 10/21/2004

Football faces toughest test to date in Harvard

Hope springs eternal this weekend in the world of sports. The Boston Red Sox, longtime losers in so many ways, finally threw the proverbial monkey off their backs.

SPORTS | 10/21/2004

Men's water polo faces two tough tests in league

During this past week of enormous caffeine consumption, lack of sleep and grueling cram sessions, most Princeton students maintained their sanity by knowing that Fall Break would bring a restful vacation of laying out at the beach or lounging beside the pool.It is quite another story for the men's water polo team.The Tigers are coming off of a four-win weekend, decisively defeating Salem International, Bucknell, Johns Hopkins and George Washington to improve their record to 16-4 (8-0 Collegiate Water Polo Association Southern Division). Princeton, led by sharpshooting junior driver John Stover, will not spend Fall Break resting or lounging.The upcoming vacation is a crucial time for the Tigers.

SPORTS | 10/21/2004

Field hockey hosts arch-rival Harvard

The story is a familiar one. It's one of the final weekends in October; the leaves are changing colors and beginning to cover the athletic fields, and walking around in the crisp autumn air without a jacket is getting a little uncomfortable.

SPORTS | 10/21/2004

W. soccer hosts Ivy nemesis Harvard

Work, work, work.Whether from parents at home, an English professor or Chuck Norris on those late-night infomercials trying to sell the new and improved Organoflexilizer, many a student at Princeton has probably heard these words at one time or another.For the players on the women's soccer team these words hold special significance heading into this weekend.

SPORTS | 10/21/2004

Flyers coach Hitchcock to assist m. hockey

With the National Hockey League in a lockout this season, it's not just the players who have extra free time.Philadelphia Flyers head coach Ken Hitchcock has the joined the coaching staff for Princeton men's hockey as an interim assistant, according to an announcement Monday from the athletic department.New Tiger head coach Guy Gadowsky phoned Hitchcock this fall to talk hockey when the Flyers coach offered to help out.No other details of the arrangement were released.Gadowsky and Hitchcock bring fresh faces to a program sorely in need of a new beginning.

SPORTS | 10/20/2004

Tight squeeze: Recreational facilities running out of room

Think your schedule is crammed? Take one look at the recreational facilities on campus and then decide who never gets a break.

SPORTS | 10/20/2004

Glee club versus Harvard sweetest matchup of weekend

Harvard is coming to town this weekend. And I don't mean the football team. Or the field hockey team, nor men's or women's soccer.

SPORTS | 10/20/2004

Spicer leads m. soccer against Harvard

Men's soccer finds itself in a position that has been quite unfamiliar in recent years ? sitting atop the Ivy League standings, tied with Penn with a 2-0-1 league record.The next week will determine whether Princeton (6-3-3 overall) is a true contender for the title, as it hosts Harvard (7-5-0 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) on Saturday before traveling to Ithaca a week later to take on the Big Red (1-9-0, 0-3-0).In between the games next Wednesday, the Tigers will host St.

SPORTS | 10/20/2004

W. volleyball vies for first on N.Y. road trip

To be the best, you have to beat the best, and women's volleyball has satisfied that requirement so far this season.Already with wins over last season's champion, Penn, and this season's leader Harvard, Princeton (13-4 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) is a half-game back of the first-place Crimson (10-6, 5-1) in the Ivy race after a thrilling 3-2 (30-25, 30-19, 26-30, 25-30, 15-8) victory Saturday at Dillon Gym.

SPORTS | 10/20/2004

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