Going into this weekend, the men's water polo team was 10-1 and one of the premier squads on the East Coast.
The sprint football gods watching over Frelingheysen Field on Friday night did the same thing they have done for the past five seasons ? nothing.With a 49-8 loss at the hands of the University of Pennsylvania (2-0) in front of a sparse crowd of 325, Princeton fell to 0-2 on the season and continued its streak of 31 consecutive losses dating back to 1999.The Tigers' lone touchdown came late in the second quarter courtesy of senior quarterback Dennis Bakke's 55-yard touchdown pass down the left side of the field to freshman wide-receiver Lon Johnson.
Junior Cack Ferrell shares at least one thing in common with George Washington ? an impressive victory on Princeton Battlefield.Ferrell led the women's cross country team to a rout of Harvard and Yale on Saturday with a course-record time of 17 minutes, 12 seconds in the final race on the course.The men's team was not quite as dominant at the Notre Dame Invitational, fighting its way to an 11th-place finish.Senior Austin Smith came up with a breakthrough performance.
Soccer has often been called the "beautiful game" by its fans. But on Saturday, when the men's soccer team hosted Dartmouth in its Ivy League opener at Lourie-Love Field, the game was anything but beautiful, as the Tigers (4-2-2 overall, 0-0-1 Ivy League) battled Dartmouth (2-1-4, 0-0-1) to a 0-0 tie.The result came as a disappointment to the Tigers, as they were confident that they could have won the game."It was a tough game, and we didn't really play well," sophomore midfielder Jame Wunsch said.
Reading about Princeton and Dartmouth's history in women's soccer is a lot like reading about some age-old feud: the Montagues and the Capulets minus the love story; the Hatfields and the McCoys minus the guns and Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield minus the ear thing.
For most players on the women's volleyball team, mentioning Penn brings back a stream of bad memories.It was Penn that defeated Princeton in the Ivy League opener three years in a row.
NEW YORK ? "Winning masks a lot of problems," head football coach Roger Hughes warned late Saturday afternoon, but it wasn't as if anyone was fooled.No, on this day, the problems were far too egregious to be masked.
NEW YORK ? Football is seldom a game of perfection, and the level of play by the Princeton football team on Saturday certainly proved that point.
In the world of Ancient Eight sports, there are certain things that one can take for granted. Penn or Princeton ? and usually both ? will be near the top of the men's basketball standings.
The sports page isn't the place for rants about this university's failed social policies and inability to think like or relate to the students.
Ivy League football is famous for many reasons. Over the years the nation's oldest athletic association has been home to Heisman Trophy winners and national champions.
Hold on tight. This season is turning out to be one heck of a roller coaster ride for the Princeton field hockey team.The Tigers showed vast improvement and even glimmers of brilliance in defeating Columbia last Friday, only to lose in overtime to a tough No.
Every Princeton student, upon beginning classes his or her freshman year, quickly learns that managing one's time can be difficult.
Maybe it was the horrible rainy weather. Maybe it was the long bus ride to Penn State for a single night.
The Princeton men's water polo team (10-1) would like to welcome everybody to the wild, wild West.
This Saturday, the women's cross country team will compete at the Princeton Battlefield for the last time.
Returning as underdogs no more, No. 11 women's soccer (6-1 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) will once again feel the warm embrace of Lourie-Love Field this Saturday, as they host the Dartmouth Big Green (4-2-2, 1-0-0) at 1 p.m.
Last week, the Arizona Cardinals lost to the Atlanta Falcons, 6-3. The Cardinals have been battling it out with the Cincinnati Bengals for worst team in the NFL for the last 10 years (and it looks like the "Bungles" have given up the fight, in favor of playoff contention). Arizona has the worst record in the NFL since the beginning of last year's regular season.
The University has decided to standardize the image of the school's tiger mascot by creating a new set of graphics designed for athletics.The "kit of parts" that comprises the new graphics system includes four different images of the traditional tiger as well as a bold new "P". Both the tiger and the "P" will be combined in various forms in shades of orange and black.While the Princeton tiger, over a century old, was the first sports mascot of its time in higher education, the University had never established one standard image for the tiger.The effort to come up with a graphic identity began in February 2004, when Princeton formed a committee to create the system that included development, athletics, campus life, public affairs, and communications representatives of the University.The committee chose international design firm Pentagram to create the actual graphics.
It would take a nationwide search over almost the entire summer, but the man who was to take the helm of men's cross country from former head coach Mike Brady would be found just a few miles down the road at the College of New Jersey, in the form of new assistant coach for men's track and cross country Steve Dolan.Brady, who retired following the end of the spring outdoor track season, had been a fixture in Princeton for 13 years.
