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Football: Sometimes winning means wanting it more

Football: Sometimes winning means wanting it more

?This game is there for the taking. How bad do you want it??That was the question posed to the football team?s offense by head coach Roger Hughes as it took the field down three points with 10 minutes left in Saturday?s 27-24 victory over Columbia.After a touchdown proved that the offense ?wanted it,? the defense made its stand, forcing a late fumble to preserve the three-point victory.

SPORTS | 10/05/2008

Women's Volleyball: Princeton leaves them quaking in their boots at the Palestra

Last year, the women?s volleyball team clawed its way to a win during a tense five-game Ivy League opener against Penn.

SPORTS | 10/05/2008

Men's Soccer: Walburn's free kick good for tie

After the women?s soccer team defeated Dartmouth 1-0 on Saturday afternoon, it left the men with a perfect setting for their matchup: beautiful weather, more than 2,000 fans and momentum in the home team?s favor.

SPORTS | 10/05/2008

Women's soccer: Peteraf puts one past Peak

Just call them the cardiac cats. For the third-0straight game, the women?s soccer team (6-1-1 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) used a combination of stingy defense, lights-out goalkeeping and offensive opportunism to pull out a hard-fought 1-0 victory against a talented opponent.?It?s a heart attack for me, but they?re finding ways [to win],? head coach Julie Shackford said.

SPORTS | 10/05/2008

Football: Tigers outroar the Lions

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.

SPORTS | 10/03/2008

Princeton faces an old foe in New York

For the ninth-consecutive season, the Princeton football team will begin its Ivy League schedule by squaring off against Columbia.

SPORTS | 10/02/2008

Pont, Peteraf take lead vs. Big Green

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.

SPORTS | 10/02/2008

Ivy League title defense kicks off at Palestra

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.

SPORTS | 10/02/2008

Tigers take shots, come up empty

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.

SPORTS | 10/02/2008

Shorthanded squad defends win streak

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.

SPORTS | 10/02/2008

On tap with ... senior attack Katie Kinzer

Q: What was your ?welcome to college? moment? A: Field hockey pre-season ? 7 a.m.

SPORTS | 10/01/2008

Sniper sisters shoot round the world

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.

SPORTS | 10/01/2008

A passion for soccer born at Princeton

Many graduating Princetonians have been reading the headlines recently, dreading the latest financial news and job market statistics.

SPORTS | 10/01/2008

Charged up by training camp in San Diego

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.

SPORTS | 10/01/2008

New head coach an old friend

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.

SPORTS | 10/01/2008

Tigers score late to win

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.

SPORTS | 09/30/2008

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