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.
In the final tune-up before a showdown with Penn at the Palestra next Saturday, the women?s volleyball team sent a message to the rest of the Ivy League.It?s back.
On first and goal with four minutes, 57 seconds remaining in the first half of the football team?s home opener against Lehigh (1-2 overall), junior running back Jordan Culbreath swept out to the right side of senior quarterback and tri-captain Brian Anderson and rushed into the endzone for a touchdown, knotting the score at seven.Culbreath?s touchdown proved to be Princeton?s (1-1) only visit to the endzone in the game, but three factors enabled the Tigers to eke out a 10-7 win as time expired.
With two seconds left on the clock and the score tied at seven in the football team?s matchup with Lehigh, all eyes were on senior kicker Connor Louden.
A tough early schedule may now be paying off for the men?s soccer team. After losing three consecutive games ? two to highly ranked teams Northwestern and Illinois-Chicago ? the Tigers finally broke through on Sunday, overcoming Farleigh Dickinson, 2-1.Princeton (2-5-0 overall) and the Knights (4-3-0) were set to head to overtime with the score knotted at one with only five minutes remaining in the second half.
Entering the weekend, no player on the women?s soccer team had defeated Yale during her collegiate career.
The field hockey team cruised along on its longest road trip of the season, adding two wins over the weekend.
Though history was against the Tigers, the field hockey team pulled out an impressive 3-2 win at No.
As the women?s volleyball team enters its final weekend of non-conference play, the Tigers are focusing on inching closer to perfection.
Coming off an impressive win against No. 13 Penn State, the field hockey team has a promising outlook for this weekend.
With two tournament-filled weeks under its belt, the No. 19 men?s water polo team will be on the road this weekend facing conference rivals No.
The men?s soccer team?s offensive struggles continued as the Tigers (1-5 overall) fell 1-0 in overtime at Monmouth (4-1-1) on Thursday afternoon.
Princeton head coach Roger Hughes knows that all his players are aware of football?s most basic rules, but heading into this weekend?s home opener ? a 6 p.m.
Soccer is in Devin Muntz? blood.And it is not simply because his father was an All-American at Muhlenberg College, or because his brother played before him, or even because he picked up the game when he was just 3 years old.It is because he has a passion for the game that led him to abandon basketball, baseball and tennis, all the while remaining loyal to soccer.
