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Curham makes Princeton history in tough conditions at Nats

Megan Curham arrived at the NCAA Cross Country Championships last weekend looking for a fight. Refusing to be intimidated by the talent-loaded field, Curham gamely stuck her nose in with the top women in the country — and prevailed. Capping off an outstanding collegiate debut cross country season, Curham drove hard to a 34th place finish and All-America honors.

In a complex offense, a quarterback who's simply tough

Junior quarterback Quinn Epperly earned six Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week awards this season and was even named The Sports Network National Offensive Player of the Week after the football team’s 51-48 victory over Harvard.

No. 3 men upset by No. 7 F&M, No. 4 women sweep weekend opponents

The No. 3 men’s squash team opened up its season this weekend with an away game against No.

Unranked Tigers upset No. 4 Quinnipiac on the road

With 10 minutes to go against No. 4 Quinnipiac, the men’s hockey team was about to face a long drive home from Hamden, Conn.

Tigers' season ends with 2nd-place finish at CWPA championship

The No. 18 men's water polo team reached the finals of the CWPA Championship after wild wins over No.

Princeton fries Rice, 70-56

The men’s basketball team went on several long runs and showed off its three-point shooting ability to defeat Rice 70-56 in Houston on Saturday afternoon. Despite trailing 23-21 more than halfway through the first half, Princeton (3-1) finished the period on a 15-2 run and entered halftime leading 36-25.

Sports Shorts: Women's basketball, swimming, women's hockey

Women’s basketball: Hoyas top Tigers with last-second heroics The Tigers fell to Georgetown 66-64 on a Hoya basket with three seconds left, bringing Princeton to 2-2 on the year despite a second-half comeback.

Before Princeton bonfire, a debate over effigies and political correctness

An online student petition asking the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students to include the football team’s captains in decisions regarding Sunday’s bonfire has received 430 signatures as of Sunday afternoon.

Princeton and Harvard split Ivy championship after Big Green tops Tigers

The No. 19 football team's Ivy League championship season came to a disappointing end on Saturday, when the Tigers suffered their only Ivy League defeat of the season.

Liveblog: Princeton vs. Dartmouth

The No. 19 football team has already clinched a share of the Ivy League title, but need to beat a tough Dartmouth team in order to win the title outright and have their first undefeated Ivy season since 1964.

Helmstetter to lead Tigers against Hoyas

This Saturday, the women's basketball team is on the road again, heading to Georgetown for its second away game in a row.

High-scoring Tigers head to Houston

The men’s basketball team heads to Houston on Saturday to take on Rice in its fourth game of the season.

No. 19 Tigers travel to Dartmouth seeking outright Ivy title

The Dartmouth Big Green is all that stands between the No. 19 football team and its first outright Ivy League championship since 1995. The Tigers (8-1 overall, 6-0 Ivy League) clinched a share of the title last week with their victory over Yale.

Battle for the Bonfire

Princeton rides momentum to win over Rider

On Tuesday night, the women’s basketball team played at Rider and came away with a 75-62 victory, its second-straight win, bringing its record to 2-1 overall. The team played well in its season-opener against Rutgers but couldn’t fill the offensive hole left by last year’s seniors, especially Niveen Rasheed ‘13, and the Tigers dropped the game 79-65.

Around the Ivies ... men's squash

On Tap with ... Taylor Tutrone

The men’s squash team kicks off its season on Saturday against Franklin & Marshall, and junior Taylor Tutrone will be back on the court for his third year hitting for Princeton.

Princeton headed to National Sevens Championship after Ivy title

The women’s rugby team will travel to North Carolina next weekend to play in the USA Rugby National Collegiate Sevens Championship tournament. The team, which was 5-6 in the regular season and 2-3 in the regular fifteens season, won an automatic bid to the championship after beating Penn by a comfortable 21-10 margin in the final round of the Ivy Championship tournament on campus on Nov.

Letting the freshmen play

At big time college programs, there is plenty for an incoming freshman athlete to be worried about.

Men split exciting weekend, women tie No. 5 Boston College

The men’s hockey team provided a weekend of wild finishes for fans at Baker Rink, splitting Friday’s and Saturday’s games with a victory over Dartmouth (0-8 overall, 0-6 ECAC) and a loss to Harvard (3-4-1, 2-4-1). Facing a three-goal deficit against the Big Green, the Tigers (2-7, 1-5) scored four unanswered goals and topped that off with a walk-off overtime goal by senior forward Andrew Ammon to win 5-4. The next night, Princeton cut Harvard's 4-1 lead to one goal in the final period but fell 5-3 as the Crimson tallied a last-second goal on an empty net. The Tigers earned their first in-league points with the win. “We’re definitely moving forward,” senior forward Jack Berger said.