The incredibly stifling, humid air. The walls plastered with team banners and inspirational Tiger posters.
Salieri and Mozart. Any European country in a land invasion against Russia. And now, finally, the Princeton fencing team against Penn State.Throughout history, there have always been competitive struggles in which the underdog was just barely unable to come out on top against the opponent it badly wanted to beat.
While the game of basketball was born in Massachussetts, its heart and home truly reside in Indiana ? the Hoosier State.
The men's hockey team has earned eight points in the first four weeks of its Eastern College Athletic Conference schedule.In each of those four weeks, the Tigers (4-3-3 overall, 3-3-2 ECAC) have earned two of four possible points.In one way this shows consistency on the part of a young Princeton team.
Picture this: You step out onto the center court, ready for the biggest game of your life ? the lights blazing, music blasting and the crowd deafening.
Time had run out, and the score was still knotted at 3-3 as the women's hockey team found itself in its first overtime period of the season against St.
Sometimes, heading home is just the thing to help someone get out of a rut. Five members of the women's hockey team hope that a trip to their home state ? Minnesota ? will end Princeton's recent slide.The Tigers head to the Land of 10,000 Lakes ? more specifically, St.
There's an old adage that says that a good defense always beats a good offense. Or is it that a good offense always beats a good defense?
Having stumbled out of the blocks down south and right here in New Jersey, the men's basketball team travels to the nation's heartland this weekend to seek its first victory of the season.Tonight, the Tigers (0-2 overall) will take on Weber State in the first round of Ball State's First Merchant's Bank Classic in Muncie, Ind.
Penn State has always stood in the way of Princeton's bringing home a fencing national championship."This year is our chance to change that," senior captain Terry Kim said.Whether or not the change will take place remains to be seen, but the first skirmish in that war will be fought this weekend as the fencing teams travel to New York University to face the Nittany Lions in addition to North Carolina and the host Violets.This will be the third competition for the defending Ivy League champs ? but the first team tournament of the season.
It isn't often that someone decides to give you money without your even having to ask for it.What is even less common is getting over $10,000.However, this is the situation that the cycling club recently found itself in.Two weeks ago, the team received an e-mail from Bill Michaud, who is the owner of the Lincoln Mercury dealer in Princeton.
You've already heard more numbers than you'd ever hoped to.Bush leads by X votes, but there are X that haven't been counted yet, according to Gore.
Coming off three road games to open its season, women's basketball looked to the friendly confines of Jadwin Gymnasium to help jump-start its struggling offense.Yet once again, the shots didn't fall and the offense sputtered, and the Tigers fell to Delaware, 66-47, last night in their home opener.Princeton (0-4), which came into the game averaging just over 40 points per game in its previous three contests, knocked down just 12 of 42 field goal attempts, including just four of 21 from three-point range.The Blue Hens (3-2) controlled the tempo from the opening tip, knocking down the game's first basket and never trailing throughout the entire 40 minutes.Both teams struggled to score in the early going.
With the clock winding down on the season and Dartmouth about to kneel down on the game, Mike Higgins refused to give up.
If a gardener gouges too deeply into the shrub he cares for, he runs the risk of killing it. But if he is careful, he can remove the longest limbs and leave a healthier, more attractive plant.Consider men's basketball head coach John Thompson '88, the new gardener who has to care for the pruning done by his predecessor.
The leaders of the men's squash team are in a unique position this year."In individual sports, you pick the top players to be the captains," senior Harrison Gabel said.But that just happens to not be the case this season for the Tigers.Senior captains Gabel and Marshall Sebring were elected last spring to be this season's team leaders.
Abbey Fox's road to assistant captain for the women's ice hockey team has been anything but a smooth ride.
Sending only four wrestlers to the VerticalNet Open this past weekend in Chapel Hill, N.C., Princeton wanted some big match experience but was not expecting to put forth a impressive showing.
Junior Dave Stathos is the goalie for the men's hockey team. He recently sat down with 'Prince' Senior Writer Clark Thiemann.'Prince': When you were starting to play hockey, why did you become a goalie?Dave Stathos: I actually played forward between the ages of four and six and actually was pretty good.
Surpassing all expectations, four members of the Princeton wrestling team placed in the top three in their respective weight classes at the VerticalNet Open on Nov.
