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.
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.
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.
This Saturday, the women's cross country team will compete at the Princeton Battlefield for the last time.
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.
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.
What's small, durable, and contains some of the best assets Princeton University has to offer? You guessed it ? the Speedos of the men's swimming and water polo teams.
A year off from football must have angried up the blood of senior linebacker Zak Keasey of the foootball team.
Junior forward Darren Spicer races down the field with the speed of a cheetah chasing a gazelle on the African savannah.
We all love football and we all love winners. Unfortunately for the last eight years, those two things have not gone hand-in-hand here at Princeton.
This is the third in a series of articles on Princeton football in honor of its 135th anniversary.Those who are more versed in Princeton lore may know which street is referred to in this article.
