New York, Oct. 3 ? With under nine minutes remaining in the football team?s 27-24 victory over Columbia (0-3 overall, 0-1 Ivy League) on Saturday afternoon, the Tigers (2-1, 1-0) were in dire need of an offensive jolt.
For the ninth-consecutive season, the Princeton football team will begin its Ivy League schedule by squaring off against Columbia.
Perhaps an extra week of rest did the women?s soccer team some good. Quickly shaking off the rust after their road trip to Texas was cancelled due to Hurricane Ike, the Tigers (5-1-1 overall, 1-0-0 Ivy League) have recorded four wins and one tie in their last five games.Considering that Princeton has won its last two games 1-0, the Tigers can be forgiven for thinking a magical season is in the making.
After a month of non-conference matches, the women?s volleyball team finally begins the most important, most anticipated and most challenging aspect of its schedule: the Ivy League season.
Against No. 16 Loyola on Wednesday night, the men?s soccer team ran into the same problem it has struggled with through the first half of the season: great opportunities, no goals.The Greyhounds (7-0-1 overall) defeated the Tigers, 1-0, in a rainy, evenly contested battle.
Sporting a new No. 12 ranking, the field hockey team hopes to build on its four-game winning streak this weekend with action Friday at Columbia and Sunday at home against Providence.
Q: What was your ?welcome to college? moment? A: Field hockey pre-season ? 7 a.m.
New York City has at times been plagued by gun violence. The city?s criminals use guns to rob banks, take hostages and the like.
Many graduating Princetonians have been reading the headlines recently, dreading the latest financial news and job market statistics.
Editor?s note: This is the seventh in a series of postcards that Daily Princetonian sports staff writers and others wrote about their experiences in the wide world of sports this summer.
The men?s cross country team has been one of the most successful Princeton sports teams over the past two years, winning two straight Ivy League Heptagonal championships and finishing third at last fall?s Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships.
Sarah Peteraf seems to have brought the Midas touch to Myslik Field, as the senior midfielder?s late-game heroics led the women?s soccer team to another victory last night.Princeton (5-1-1 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) got off to a slow start against Fairfield (7-2-2) and had difficulty maintaining possession and creating quality attacking chances.
The field hockey team boasts an impressive statistic that often goes unnoticed. The team has a 30.7 girls-whose-first-name-begins-with-K percentage.
Here?s a bold prediction: Come Nov. 1, thousands of people will be wearing ?Chicago Cubs ? World Champions? T-shirts.Unfortunately for North Siders, those winsome garments will not be worn in the Windy City.
Editor?s note: This is the sixth in a series of postcards that Daily Princetonian sports staff writers and others wrote about their experiences in the wide world of sports this summer.
The sprint football team took on Penn last Friday at Powers Field in the Tigers? season opener.
Fresh off an 11th-place finish at the McLaughlin Invitational last weekend, the men?s golf team travelled to Ithaca, N.Y., to compete in a rain-shortened Cornell Invitational this weekend.
The men?s water polo team rocketed to a five-game winning streak and a perfect start to its divisional season this weekend, defeating No.
Spectators at the Yale Golf Course witnessed quite a show last Saturday as the women?s cross country team swept the top six spots in the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet for a perfect team score of 15.
The men?s and women?s tennis teams were back in action this weekend, with the men playing at home for the first time this season in the Farnsworth Invitational and the women playing in the Cissie Leary Invitational at Penn.The Farnsworth Invitational is a three-day tournament in which the eight participating teams ? Princeton, St.
