One thing is for certain. Colgate running back Jamaal Branch will be carrying the football this Saturday ? a lot.
Women's rugbyLast Saturday, the Tigers 'A' team (5-0) earned a massive 54-0 win over West Chester.
Junior Jay McCareins saved the football team last weekend in its 27-26 overtime win over Columbia.
Halloween is still a few weeks away, but for the men's soccer team's offense, October is shaping up to be a nightmare already.For the second straight game the Tigers' offense couldn't manage a goal and found themselves bailed out by their defense as the team salvaged a 0-0 tie last night against American at Lourie-Love Field.The Tigers now have a scoreless streak at 248 minutes, 44 seconds going back to a 4-1 win over Wofford on Sept.
It has been a bumpy road for the field hockey team this season. The Tigers (3-7 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) have faced some of the top-ranked and most challenging competitors in the country.
It's midmorning and the slanting rays that filter through the large windows add to the quiet peace that usually pervades DeNunzio Pool this time of day.
After destroying rival Penn at The Palestra last weekend, the women's volleyball team will be on the road again this weekend for conference match-ups against Brown (4-8 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) on Friday and Yale (5-4, 0-1) on Saturday.Last week's road victory against the Quakers was a confidence builder for Princeton (10-3, 1-0), who previously had lost the last three conference openers to Penn.
Revenge is sweet, which is why the Princeton men's tennis team simply can not wait until April.The Tigers were routed, 6-1, by Harvard in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championship this weekend in Flushing Meadow, N.Y.
They say that all streaks must come to an end. However, there does not seem to be an end in sight for the sprint football team's 31-game (and counting) losing streak.The streak, the second longest NCAA Division I men's losing streak of all time (second to Northwestern football's 34-game skid from 1979-1982), started in October of 1999 against Penn.
Sitting next to Kathy Sell, one cannot help but be infected with the enthusiasm she exudes as she discusses her new job.Sell has assumed the reigns of the women's tennis program from Louise Gengler.
This is the fourth in a series of articles on the history of Princeton football in honor of its 135th anniversary.Football, one of the longest standing traditions in college and American history, has its roots on this campus.
Even while they played what head coach Julie Shackford called "an ugly game," No. 12 women's soccer (8-1 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) defeated cross-state rival Rutgers (6-7 overall) by a score of 1-0 last night on a chilly New Jersey evening under the lights of Lourie-Love Field.
My last memory of junior defensive back Jay McCareins prior to this season was Oct. 19, 2002. I was cruising the sideline at the football game against Brown, heading for the locker room to help coordinate the postgame press conference.
The rollercoaster ride continued for the field hockey team this weekend as it eked out a 5-4 come-from-behind victory over Boston University on Friday but fell to the No.
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.
Women's golf takes the phrase "from dawn 'til dusk" to the extreme. While students on campus were sound asleep on Saturday morning, the Tigers were at a golf course in University Park, Pa.
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.
