As the men's soccer team was in the process of turning around its previously winless season a few weeks ago, senior captain Kyle McHugh remarked that there was a difference between playing well and winning games.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. ? "We had to earn everything. There was nothing given to us today," Harvard head coach Tim Murphy said after his Crimson defeated Princeton 27-10 on Saturday afternoon at Harvard Stadium.That 17-point deficit, however, fails to reflect Princeton's overall effort in the 100th meeting of the two rivals.
Princeton football fans making the trek up to Harvard only to see their bonfire hopes crushed may have bemoaned their lot Saturday in Cambridge, but, unbeknownst to most of them, a different contingent of the Orange and Black was celebrating victory just a short walk from Harvard Stadium.In a door-die matchup almost certain to decide this year's Ivy League field hockey champions and the accompanying automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, the Tigers (10-4 overall, 5-1 Ivy League) defeated the Crimson (7-7, 3-2) in the 12th minute of overtime.
Entering the season without some of last year's strongest players, the women's hockey team is out to prove that it has more than just potential.
When the football team takes the field at Harvard Stadium tomorrow at 12:30 p.m., it will mark the 100th time that Princeton (2-3 overall, 1-1 Ivy League) and Harvard (3-2, 2-0) have lined up against each other.
The women's soccer team had never lost to Lehigh as it headed into its Wednesday-night matchup against the Mountain Hawks.
The Ivy League title is on the line tomorrow, and the field hockey team stands poised to claim it.
After a less-than-stellar start to the season, the men's soccer team needed two clutch plays from a rookie defender to maintain its run of six-straight strong performances.Freshman defender Josh Walburn's 30-yard free kick in the 64th minute came during a strong second-half surge, as Princeton (3-7-2 overall, 1-1-0 Ivy League) forced a 1-1 overtime tie at St.
Consider the following statistics:1.Since the formation of the Ivy League in 1956, Princeton has won more Ivy League Championships than any other school.2.Princeton is the only member of the Ivy League to have won championships in all 17 men's varsity sports and all 16 women's varsity sports.3.In the last 10 years, Princeton has more total titles than Harvard and Yale combined.Though these facts have infinite ego-boosting potential for Princeton's students, coaches and alumni, we must not use such figures merely to congratulate ourselves.
It took just 70 seconds for the Lehigh field hockey team to realize it was in over its head. Facing a Tiger team (8-4 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) that had beaten it seven straight times, including a 9-1 drubbing when they last met in 1993, the Mountain Hawks (7-6) all but surrendered.
A soccer captain. A charismatic leader. A future marine. Coming up with labels to describe senior forward Kyle McHugh is easy.Problem is, those labels barely scratch the surface of the man who almost singlehandedly defeated Columbia last Sunday to keep Tigers' Ivy League hopes alive.McHugh was born and raised in Baldwin, Md., just north of Baltimore.
From its exterior, Dillon Gymnasium looks more like a castle than an athletic facility. What it boasts in aesthetic appeal, however, it lacks in functionality.Constructed in the 1940s, when Princeton was still a male-only institution with a significantly smaller student body, Dillon Gym has undergone significant reconfigurations over the years.
It may seem difficult to step out from under the shadow of a father who set the world record in the 100-meter butterfly twice and participated in three consecutive summer Olympics, but Luis Nicolao, head coach of the men's and women's water polo teams, has managed to make his own impact on the aquatics world.After finishing a collegiate career at the Naval Academy that netted him three All-American selections and the school's all-time goals scored record, Nicolao has continued his success by leading the Tigers to a collective 399-143 (.763) record in his 10 years at Princeton.
Not long after their relatives and friends abandoned New Orleans for higher ground, freshman Alex Faust of the men's tennis team and his family decided to ride out Hurricane Katrina.
Hockey season is near. You can tell from the cooler temperatures, dropping leaves and crisp air, but if you want more evidence, you need look no further than Monmouth Junction, where the men's hockey team opened its season with an intense intrasquad scrimmage Sunday.At Princeton Sports Center, a rink owned by two Princeton hockey alumni, the Tigers put on a brief skills competition with local youths before engaging in a high-adrenaline scrimmage that left one player in need of stitches and a few others banged up."We really beat each other up," senior defenseman Mike Moore said.
When the women's soccer team's senior captain and goalkeeper Maren Dale began playing soccer, she played all 11 positions with the wild abandon typical of most six year olds.
Last season's football game against Harvard took sibling rivalry to a whole new level. As quarterback Jeff Terrell '07 found senior wide receiver Brendan Circle on a crossing pattern for the go-ahead touchdown, junior wide receiver Adam Berry provided a key block to spring Circle into the end zone.
