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Hughes are you?: Little-known assistant becomes new head football coach

Hughes are you?: Little-known assistant becomes new head football coach

After a seven-week national search, the University announced at a press conference Friday morning that the 80 candidates to be its next football head coach had been winnowed down to one ? Roger Hughes, Dartmouth's offensive coordinator.A self-proclaimed "long-shot" candidate to replace Steve Tosches, who resigned Nov.

SPORTS | 01/16/2000

M. squash falls to Harvard

The men's squash team lost to Harvard, 4-1, Sunday in the finals of the United States Squash and Racquet Association Five-man Team Tournament, ending an impressive run for the Tigers.Princeton had defeated the United States Junior National Team in the semifinals before falling to the Crimson."It was tough coming back from break," senior No.

SPORTS | 01/11/2000

Veteran men's volleyball seeks return to glory days

Last year, it would have been impossible for the men's volleyball team to live up to the expectations set by the previous year's miraculous journey to Hawaii ? and the NCAA Final Four.

SPORTS | 01/11/2000

Swimming defeats Rutgers amid tough training period

This is the most vulnerable time for the Princeton men's and women's swimming teams.Deep in the middle of their most intense training of the season, where tired and worn-out bodies are the norm at practice, both teams had to defend their spotless records against intrastate rival Rutgers this past weekend at DeNunzio Pool.Possible upsets were brewing.But the Tiger swimming teams proved themselves invulnerable to such challenges, continuing their undefeated seasons by defeating Rutgers, 167-121 in men's competition and 178-117 in women's competition.The men's team (6-0 overall, 3-0 Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League), however, thought at first that something might be in the air.

SPORTS | 01/11/2000

Stoic Morrow sets tone for men's volleyball

Jason Morrow has always been the center of attention, but the senior setter for the men's volleyball team would be the first to say that he is a star by coincidence and not by design.According to the second-year captain of a team looking for its first Final Four trip since Morrow's sophomore year, leadership is "inherent to being a setter ? it comes with the position."The role of the setter on any volleyball team is to position the ball for the hitters in the front row, a job Morrow has handled with ease since his freshman year."From Day One he stepped in and didn't miss a beat," head coach Glenn Nelson says of the talented Morrow.

SPORTS | 01/11/2000

Wrestling takes 16th place

In their opening competition of the year 2000, the wrestling team was hoping that the New Year would bring with it a fresh start ? and more promising results on the scoreboard.Unfortunately for Princeton, Saturday's Millersville Invitational did not give the Tigers the strong team showing they were looking for.Out of the 25-team field, Princeton finished a disappointing 16th with a team score of 48.5."It's just a tough time for us," head coach Michael New said.

SPORTS | 01/11/2000

Women's hockey outlasts ECAC-power Dartmouth

In its first weekend back on North American ice, the women's hockey team knew that things would be different on this side of the Atlantic.

SPORTS | 01/09/2000

Lafayette defeats men's basketball in overtime thriller

With 14.7 seconds left in overtime, a center having an effective 24-point night and the opposition's two big men sitting on the bench with five fouls apiece, getting one basket in the low post seems like a fairly surmountable task.But it wasn't that easy for the men's basketball team Saturday night.

SPORTS | 01/09/2000

No Jadwin miracle: Late comeback falls shorts as Penn defeats women's basketball

It all seemed so eerily familiar. A Princeton basketball team falls way behind Penn, then makes a dramatic comeback.This time around, however, there would be no miraculous victory for the female Tigers.

SPORTS | 01/09/2000

Men's hockey falls to lowly Bears only to upset first-place Harvard

This season has been one of ups and downs for the men's hockey team. Big wins against teams like Yale, currently in second place in the Eastern College Athletic Conference, and Midwestern powerhouse Notre Dame have been coupled with big losses to schools like ECAC bottom-feeder Vermont and Bemidji State, which was recently elevated to Division I.This weekend's results do nothing to break that trend.

SPORTS | 01/09/2000

Women's hoops opens Ivy schedule against Quakers

This is the team that knocked Princeton out of sole possession of first place at the end of last season.

SPORTS | 01/06/2000

Lafayette should give men's hoops challenge behind Ciosici, Ehlers

Lafayette entered this season fresh off its first NCAA tournament appearance since the 1956-57 season.

SPORTS | 01/06/2000

Men's hockey remains in logjam of teams atop ECAC leaderboard

With two wins this weekend at Brown and Harvard, the men's hockey team could move into first place in the Eastern College Athletic Conference race.With two losses, Princeton could fall to seventh.The Tigers currently reside in a tie for fourth place in the ECAC, as one of seven teams within three points of the lead.

SPORTS | 01/06/2000

Trip to Europe provides w. hockey chance to foster team cohesion

As this summer's World Cup mania proved, women's athletics are gaining interest and recognition throughout the United States.During its winter break European tour, the women's ice hockey team learned that this developing fascination, however, is not a global phenomenon.

SPORTS | 01/06/2000

M. swimming stays perfect in league

Winter break was very hectic for Rob Orr, head coach of the men's swimming team. Not only did he and his family move across town, but his wife decided to get a new dog.

SPORTS | 01/06/2000

Missing in action: Men's hoops goes 2-2, loses Rocca to injury

LAWRENCE, Kan. Over winter break the men's basketball team learned it can play with any team in the nation.

SPORTS | 01/04/2000

Women's hoops suffers four defeats over winter break

During the past two weeks, the women's basketball team has played two of its best games of the season.

SPORTS | 01/04/2000

Men's hockey takes advantage of man-up opportunities

The theme of the men's hockey team's two-game series with Notre Dame was 'shorthanded.' In South Bend, Ind., Dec.

SPORTS | 01/04/2000

Men's lax benefits thanks to new defensive strategy

Christian Cook expected to face one of the toughest assignments of his lacrosse career last Saturday in the men's lacrosse team's game against Harvard.

SPORTS | 04/16/1998

Softball meets dynamic duo from Harvard in key contest

Then the softball team takes the diamond at 1895 Field tomorrow it will face a dual threat from Harvard in sophomore hitting sensation Deborah Abeles and current Ivy League Pitcher of the Week Tasha Cupp.Princeton (18-2 overall, 2-2 Ivy) must shut down Abeles and find a way to solve Cupp in order to defeat Harvard (18-17, 4-0) and keep any hope of winning the Ivy championship alive."(Harvard is) definitely one of our top competitors in the league," senior pitcher Alyssa Smith said.A shortstop and the Ivy League Player of the Week for the second consecutive time, Abeles has batted 15 for 27 for the past six games, with a .556 average.

SPORTS | 04/16/1998

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