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Football: Snow steals the show as Tigers lose 24-7

Football: Snow steals the show as Tigers lose 24-7

In the sport of football, perhaps nothing is more romanticized than a game played in snow. Since the Ivy League season ends in mid-November, the nation’s oldest football program rarely gets to have that experience, save for possibly a few flurries during a year-ending game in Hanover, N.H. But when the Tigers lined up to kick off on Saturday afternoon, two inches of snow covered Powers Field and much more swirled around Princeton Stadium, instantly providing a scene that was as memorable as it was bizarre.

SPORTS | 10/28/2011

Men's Soccer: Red-hot Cornell to challenge hosts

The Cornell men’s soccer team is good this year — really good. In fact, the Big Red has had its most successful season in recent memory. Cornell has not lost in its last 12 games, and the team cracked the top 25 last week for the first time in 10 years. The Big Red in position to wrest the Ivy League title from the team it visits this week, Princeton.

SPORTS | 10/27/2011

Women's Volleyball: Team tests Ivy’s top record on the road

The women’s volleyball team still has a great chance of winning the Ivy League title, but it must perform at its best in the upcoming matches to stay atop the group. The Tigers (14-6 overall, 7-1 Ivy League) are currently tied for first place in the league standings with Yale. With their only Ivy loss being a 3-0 sweep at Columbia, currently ranked third in the league, the Tigers have an advantage in the second half of their league season, having already defeated five of the six teams left.

SPORTS | 10/27/2011

Football: Tigers hope to rebound vs. Big Red

The football team will return home this week after a winless three-game road trip. The Tigers (1-5 overall, 1-2 Ivy League) will host Cornell (2-4, 0-3), which has yet to record an Ivy League victory.

SPORTS | 10/27/2011

Cross Country: Princeton runners hope to defend Heps titles

As the leaves change color and the weather turns colder, the college cross country season arrives at what it’s all about: championship races. On Saturday, the men’s and women’s cross country teams will make a push for their first titles of the year at the Ivy League Championships. Entering as the reigning double-triple crown winners in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track, both teams have dominating legacies to uphold.

SPORTS | 10/27/2011

Field Hockey: U.S. squad plays for bid in 2012 Olympics

Over the coming weeks and months, many Princeton athletes will compete for Ivy League titles and even in national tournaments. But at 6:30 p.m. tonight, three field hockey players will have even more at stake — a bid to the 2012 Olympics with the U.S. National Team.

SPORTS | 10/27/2011

Women's Soccer: Women host Senior Night at Roberts

With two games left in the season, the women’s soccer team hopes to spend fall break finishing the campaign on a good note against Ivy League rivals Cornell and Penn. The Tigers host the Big Red at 1 p.m. on Saturday, their final home game of the year, before traveling to Penn the following week.

SPORTS | 10/27/2011

Column: Owner-Labor battle looming for NCAA

The rumblings surrounding corruption in high-profile college sports have reached an all-time high in the last year. Every couple of months, it seemed, a new “scandal” emerged — Jim Tressel and Terrelle Pryor at Ohio State, the Willie Lyles allegations at Oregon and Lousiana State University, and the all-you-can-eat buffet style violations uncovered at Miami over the summer, to name a few — followed by the requisite indignation on the part of the NCAA and the obligatory contrition from those involved.

SPORTS | 10/25/2011

Women's Tennis: ITA Tournament results disappoint

The women’s tennis team’s biggest fall tournament ended mostly in disappointment for the Tigers. Despite coming in with a couple of highly-seeded entrants, no Princeton players advanced beyond the third day of play at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northeast Regional Tournament as the long weekend came to an abrupt end on Sunday.

SPORTS | 10/25/2011

Crew: Crews ‘Pull for the Cure’ on Charles

This weekend, the crews traveled to Boston for the annual Head of the Charles regatta on the Charles River. For the past two years, this event has been more than a typical regatta for the Princeton rowers — they also participate in a fundraising event for breast cancer research.

SPORTS | 10/25/2011

Women's Hockey: Big upset highlights opening weekend

If the first game of the season is any indication of the 27 to come, the women’s hockey team is in pretty good shape. The Tigers (1-1 overall) dealt No. 8 Northeastern (5-1) its first loss of the season Friday night in the home opener at Baker Rink.

SPORTS | 10/25/2011

On Tap with ... Peter Maag

Peter Maag, a senior on the men’s track and cross country teams, finished third for the Tigers two Saturdays ago at the Wisconsin adidas Invitational, a big reason for Princeton’s impressive fourth-place finish. Now ranked ninth in the nation, Maag and the Cross Country Tigers look to defend their Ivy League title Saturday when Princeton hosts the 2011 Heptagonal Championships. The ‘Prince’ interviewed this not-so-hipster track star from Portland, Ore., to find out about his basketball prowess, his teammates and the unicycle pole vault.

SPORTS | 10/25/2011

Men's Hockey: Offense strong in exhibition

The men’s hockey team racked up two dominant exhibition wins this past weekend and will attempt to further their success in the upcoming days as the Tigers travel to Hanover, N.H., for the Ivy League Shootout against Yale and Brown. Princeton will compete in a back-to-back series against the No. 10 Bulldogs on Friday and the Bears on Saturday.

SPORTS | 10/25/2011

Sprint Football: Squad forfeits against Navy due to lack of healthy players

Teddy Schleifer

The sprint football team forfeited its home game against Navy scheduled for last Friday night, saying in an announcement on Wednesday that the team had an insufficient number of healthy players to safely compete. The last game the team forfeited was a home matchup against Army in October 2007.

SPORTS | 10/23/2011

Field Hockey: 4-1 victory gives team control of Ivy destiny

Ben Koons

After a resounding 4-1 rout of Harvard, the field hockey team stands poised to earn its seventh Ivy League title in a row.

SPORTS | 10/23/2011

Women's Soccer: Early-season finishing woes return in Cambridge

Vijit Kapoor

The women’s soccer team’s aspirations of winning the Ivy League have ended with two conference games remaining in the season. Harvard won Saturday’s fixture 2-1 in Cambridge, Mass., sending the Tigers on an undoubtedly gloomy bus ride back to Princeton. The hosts scored once in each half before junior striker Jen Hoy grabbed a consolation goal minutes before the final whistle.

SPORTS | 10/23/2011

Women's Volleyball: Visitors sweep rivals at Palestra

After an impressive first half of the conference season, the women’s volleyball team came away from Penn with its fourth straight victory on Friday. After recent victories against Cornell, Yale and Brown, the Tigers maintained their position at the top of the Ivy League, still tied with Yale for first place.

SPORTS | 10/23/2011

Football: Comeback falls short at Harvard

Shayan Rakhit

A deficit is almost never easy to deal with. A deficit of 26 points is definitely never easy to handle. A deficit of 26 points on the road against a bitter rival that looks well on its way to winning the league might as well be insurmountable. But when he found his team down 35-9 early in the third quarter at Harvard on Saturday, senior quarterback Tommy Wornham would not let the Tigers simply roll over.

SPORTS | 10/23/2011

Men's Water Polo: Princeton clinches regular-season Southern Division title at home

Kathy Qu

Despite some pipe damage at DeNunzio Pool earlier in the week that kept the men’s water polo team from regular training, the No. 14 Tigers showed their strength in a three-game weekend against George Washington, Fordham and Iona. A 12-8 win against George Washington on Friday night allowed the Tigers to clinch their second CWPA Southern Division regular season title in three years with a 6-2 record.

SPORTS | 10/23/2011

Men's Soccer: Tigers net 1st conference win

Luc Cohen

Struggling to accumulate momentum in a disappointing Ivy League season, head coach Jim Barlow ’91 made a number of changes to the men’s soccer team’s lineup on Saturday night at Harvard, hoping that different combinations of players on the field would yield a different result.

SPORTS | 10/23/2011

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