Almost exactly one year ago, the field hockey team notched a momentous upset of then-No. 1 University of Maryland. But the Tigers could not recapture that magic on Tuesday night, losing to the No. 3 Terrapins in College Park, Md.
The men’s soccer team had hoped that the come-from-behind victory over Villanova on Sept. 16 would turn their season around for the better. Instead, Princeton has suffered two frustrating losses since then, making the Villanova game seem like a distant memory.
The women’s tennis team opened its fall season this weekend, heading to Providence to compete in the Brown Invitational. Three Princeton players claimed victories in their respective singles groups, and the team won the tournament doubles title.
Though a troublesome forecast portended rain all weekend, Springdale Golf Club avoided the elements for most of Saturday and Sunday, allowing the women’s golf team to complete the Princeton Invitational, its yearly host tournament, without any major hiccups. In a field packed with 11 other schools from the East Coast, the Tigers finished sixth, trailing four of five Ivy League rivals and finishing 20 strokes behind champion Harvard.
Twice in the first six games of the field hockey team’s young season, freshman midfielder Sydney Kirby set up freshman striker Allison Evans to score. Twice on Saturday afternoon, Evans returned the favor. Those goals made the difference between a win and a fourth consecutive loss for the Tigers, who snapped their skid with a 3-2 victory over Yale at Class of 1952 Stadium.
Muhammad Ali once said, “I never thought of losing, but now that it’s happened, the only thing is to do it right ... We all have to take defeats in life.” Despite the fight against Johns Hopkins (9-4) on Friday, the No. 13 men’s water polo team suffered their first loss of the season.
The Mansfield University sprint football team has only won five games in its three years as a full team. Four of those victories have come against Princeton. The Tigers continued a losing trend on Saturday afternoon in a 40-2 loss to the Mountaineers.
A 36-second stretch of game time was all it took to decide the winner of the women’s soccer team’s match against Yale. The Bulldogs scored twice in the 57th minute and played shutdown defense the rest of the way as Princeton fell 2-0 in its Ivy League opener.
Associate Editor for Sports Eric Levenson '13 and Executive Editor for Sports Kevin Whitaker '13 discuss the football team's disappointing loss to Bucknell and women volleyball's victory over defending Ivy League champs Penn.
The defense may force stops and the running game may start to heat up, but when a team turns the ball over six times, nothing else really matters. The football team found itself in that very position on Saturday night, as Princeton dropped its second game 34-9 to Bucknell.
There is plenty of fault to be had in the football team’s 10th consecutive defeat, the culmination of a full season’s worth of losses. But the defense should rank low on that list, after it was placed in an unwinnable position by a series of failures from the other units on Saturday night. In fact, the Tigers would have allowed more than the nine points they scored even if the defense had never conceded a single yard.
Fans packed the bleachers at Dillon Gymnasium on Friday night to watch as the women’s volleyball team defeated Ivy League rival and defending champion Penn in the opening conference match of the season. Last year when the Tigers took on the Quakers, each team won one very close match, so anticipation was high leading up to the weekend’s contest.
The football team looks to snap its nine-game losing streak under the lights at Princeton Stadium as it takes on Bucknell in its second game of the season. Follow the action at 6 p.m. with our live blog!
The end of this week will mark the beginning of the Ivy League season for the women’s volleyball team, which will host defending conference champion Penn in Dillon Gymnasium on Friday night.
One bizarre feature of American life is that perhaps our most highly publicized labor disputes are between rich athletes and super-rich sports team owners. Rarely do the plights of the athletes or owners inspire much sympathy. The average fan roots for a restoration of play, not for upper-income professional athletes to win a decisive victory for labor against management.
Despite losing its season opener, the football team showed some areas of improvement last week and is optimistic for a successful outing at home against the Bucknell Bison on Saturday night.
The women’s soccer team opens up its Ivy League season against Yale on Saturday, playing the Bulldogs at Roberts Stadium at 3:30 p.m. The Tigers (1-5-1) hope to bounce back from a rough beginning to their non-league season, which has included just one win in seven frustrating games.
After two heartbreaking losses last weekend, the field hockey team is looking forward to recovering some lost territory in the Ivy League when it hosts Yale at noon on Saturday.
Fantasy football is a fun way to make games not involving the football team you support interesting, but it also allows those of us who like to delve deeper into the intricacies and statistics to try to secure an advantage for draft day. Still riding the high of the NFL fantasy draft, I decided to apply the same rules to the Ivy League and determine the first round draft picks for an eight-team fantasy league, drafting only players in the Ivy League.
Twins Jason and Devin McCourty both play cornerback in the NFL: Who does mom like best? What position does Hall of Famer Deion Sanders play during flag football? If NBA 7-footer Brook Lopez could be a Disney character, who would he be? (Answers at the end.) I asked many of these sorts of questions in my job this summer at Sports Illustrated Kids.
