Eight wins, one loss and one tie. Three wins and no losses in Ivy League competition. Any way you look at it, that is not a bad way to start a season.
Last year, football's graduating class had two players make NFL rosters ?? Dennis Norman '01 and Ross Tucker '01.This year's best hope to make it to the big leagues plays what is quite possibly the least desired job on the field ?? kicker.Senior Taylor Northrop has had a stellar football career at Princeton.
"The team finished 18th [out of 35] and pretty much ran a terrible race," senior captain Wes Stockard said of the performance of men's cross country this weekend at the NCAA Pre-National Invitational at Furman University in Greenville, S.C.That basically sums it up.First place in the Invitational went to Stanford, with a total score of 56.
Princeton trailed Brown 35-24 with about eight minutes left to play and faced a fourth-and-10 from the Bear 34-yard line.
This one didn't come down to the final minutes, it wasn't a nail-biter, and it wasn't a one-goal game.
Before any competition, a team sets goals for itself. Going into the NCAA Pre-National Invitational at Furman University on Saturday, the women's cross country team aimed to finish in the Top 20 of a field that included Colorado, the No.
The men's golf team came up just short this weekend with their second place finish at the Stabler Invitational.
Women's soccerSophomore Theresa Sherry netted two goals as the Tigers defeated Brown, 4-1, to remain undefeated in Ivy play this season.
If Derek Zoolander, in the new fim of the same name, could make it to the top of the modeling world with only one look and without the ability to turn left, the multi-dimensional field hockey team should be feeling pretty good about its prospects.This weekend, in action against Connecticut and Ivy League rival Brown, the Tigers showed just how many different winning looks they have.
In Saturday's football game with Brown, junior running back Cameron Atkinson had both the Ivy League's longest rushing play as well as the longest kick-off return of the season, but his 287 yard total performance was not enough as Princeton (1-3 overall, 1-1 Ivy League) fell to Brown (2-2, 1-1), 35-24.Both sides of the ball for the Tigers were noticeably weaker due to injuries, and the absence of junior wide receiver Chisom Opara greatly hurt the air attack and wiped out the big passing plays."We need to get our pass protection straightened out a bit if we're going to throw to anyone down there," head coach Roger Hughes said.
What good is a recipe that changes every day? When either the ingredients change or the amounts change it will never give you exactly what you want in the pot.
With its backs against the wall, the men's soccer team had two choices ? it could let its whole season slip away or could rebound and win both of its games by large margins.
Overcoming one's personal desires to adhere to the tenets of fairness and competition is crucial for good sportsmanship.
This time last season, the football team was in a bind. It was going into its second Ivy League game against Brown after losing yet another quarterback in a loss to Colgate.In only the fifth game of the season, Princeton was going against a team that had scored 53 points against them the last time, and the focus of the offense rested on the shoulders of a freshman fourth-string quarterback, the first-ever freshman to start under center in Princeton history.That freshman fourth-stringer, Dave Splithoff, led the Tigers to a 55-28 win over the Bears, earning Ivy League and ECAC Offensive Player of the Week honors.
Almost one year ago to the day from this Sunday's game, Princeton played Brown in a contest of undefeated women's soccer teams.
The Brown men's soccer team has won the Ivy League three of the last four years. The only interruption in the Bears' domination came in 1999 when a young Princeton team ripped the rug out from under them.
"We just can't let the injury bug hit us this year like it did last year," football head coach Roger Hughes said at the beginning of the season.Unfortunately for the Tigers, though, the injury bug bit last week, and it bit hard, putting five starters on the sideline by the end of the game against Colgate.
It was another one-goal game, but Princeton will take this one. After trailing in the competition ? a position the Tigers have been in only once this season ? Princeton stormed back, scoring late in the first half and then netting one in overtime to take the win, 2-1, last night over William and Mary.Princeton found itself down early.
"I was too small to play football and too short to play basketball, so I started running. I knew I wanted to do something, and there was nothing else I was good at."Maybe Wes Stockard, senior captain of the men's cross-country team, did begin his running career this way.
Last night the Princeton field hockey team traveled to the University of Delaware and defeated the Blue Hens, 3-2, in the first step of recovery after a disastrous loss to Penn State last weekend.Princeton, ranked No.
