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Football: Scott will pose major challenge for front seven

Football: Scott will pose major challenge for front seven

Colgate?s Jordan Scott is unquestionably the best running back in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), so when the Princeton football team heads to Hamilton, N.Y., for its final non-league game of the season against Colgate (3-2 overall), the Tigers will have to be perfect on both sides of the ball to come away with a victory.The Tigers (2-1, 1-0 Ivy League) are coming off an exciting win in their Ivy opener at Columbia, in which senior quarterback and tri-captain Brian Anderson capped a sensational afternoon with a 52-yard bomb to up-and-coming sophomore wideout Trey Peacock for the go-ahead score late in the fourth quarter.

SPORTS | 10/09/2008

Women's Volleyball: Lions, Big Red next up for Princeton

Fresh off last Saturday?s dominating victory over Penn in its first Ivy League matchup, the women?s volleyball team is looking to stay undefeated in league play as it travels to Columbia and Cornell this weekend.

SPORTS | 10/09/2008

Men's Soccer: Powerful Bears next chance at league victory

Beating Brown ? which was recently ranked No. 19 in the College Soccer News poll ? is one of the hardest things an Ivy League soccer team can do.

SPORTS | 10/09/2008

Men's Water Polo: Tigers to face No. 1 USC in first game in SoCal

If there is one thing the No. 15 men?s water polo team has learned in the past two weeks, it?s that the Tigers can hang with just about anyone.

SPORTS | 10/09/2008

Women's Soccer: Defense is set to dominate again

Perhaps more impressive than the women?s soccer team?s seven-game unbeaten streak is that the team keeps finding ways to improve with each win.

SPORTS | 10/09/2008

On tap with senior Max Schechter

Q: What was your ?welcome to college? moment?A: The first day of practice freshman year, coach sat [senior] Drew Maliniak and I down during a team lunch and started talking about the next few years.

SPORTS | 10/08/2008

Harvard, Yale upset in early league contests

The landscape of Ivy League football seems a little topsy-turvy right now. In a wild first round of league play, the two favorites to capture the Ivy League crown ? Yale and Harvard ? were toppled by Cornell and Brown, respectively.

SPORTS | 10/08/2008

Fantasy camp makes baseball bearable

Editor?s note: This is the eighth and final 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.

SPORTS | 10/08/2008

Frosh Ford fills void left by star

As the women?s volleyball team seeks to repeat its historic 14-0 Ivy League-winning 2007 season, the Tigers have the advantage of returning most of their starting players ? except one.

SPORTS | 10/08/2008

‘Ball up’ at Dillon Gym

With a maximum capacity of 1,500, Princeton University?s Dillon Gym isn?t what one would consider the most luxurious of sporting venues.

SPORTS | 10/08/2008

Princeton trio takes weekly awards

Anderson wins Ivy League Co-Offensive Player of the Week honorIf anyone who?s witnessed the football team in recent weeks believes they?ve just seen the spitting image of former quarterback Jeff Terrell ?07, they don?t necessarily need to have their vision checked.

SPORTS | 10/08/2008

Ruggers build on long tradition in an unlikely place

Editor?s Note: Look for more articles in the coming months featuring Princeton?s club and intramural sports teams.

SPORTS | 10/07/2008

One-time walk-on runs wild as Tigers' starting tailback

His freshman year at Princeton, junior running back Jordan Culbreath was a walk-on to the football team.

SPORTS | 10/07/2008

Eagles' wings clipped

The women?s soccer team extended its unbeaten streak to seven games Tuesday afternoon as it steamrolled American, 4-0, in Washington, D.C.

SPORTS | 10/07/2008

Fantasy? Give me reality any day of the week

It?s official. I hate fantasy football.

SPORTS | 10/07/2008

Women's golf: Aboff, Tigers destroy ECAC competition

Senior co-captain Susannah Aboff added another individual title to her name, and the women?s golf team came back in a big way after an undistinguished showing at the Johnie Imes Invitational, winning the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) championship by an impressive 16-shot margin at the Kiskiack Golf Club in Williamsburg, Va.Aboff has been a consistent performer this season, having notched the top finish among the Tigers in each of their four tournaments this season.

SPORTS | 10/06/2008

Field hockey: Streak to six after two wins

After two challenges this weekend, the field hockey team remains unscathed in the Ivy League and poised for a strong second half.

SPORTS | 10/06/2008

Women's tennis: Trio ends up empty-handed in California

This past week the women?s tennis team sent three players to attempt to qualify for the Riviera/ITA Women?s All-American Championships.

SPORTS | 10/06/2008

Sprint football: Athletic Black Knights too strong

The sprint football team traveled to West Point last Friday to take on Army. The Black Knights (2-2 overall, 1-0 Collegiate Spring Football League) racked up points in a hurry, scoring eight touchdowns and one field goal.

SPORTS | 10/06/2008

Cross country: Princeton women second at Notre Dame meet

Spectators will almost never see a solitary Princeton cross-country runner. The women?s cross country team prides itself on pack-running, a strategy that helped it battle through a tough field of 186 runners at the Notre Dame Invitational to claim second place overall.The men?s cross country team, meanwhile, finished 11th overall, with senior Michael Maag posting the eighth-best individual time.On the women?s side, the race featured a deep field that included a dozen nationally ranked teams.

SPORTS | 10/06/2008

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