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The Daily Princetonian

Tigers ruled Ivy League in 1995

Before the first snap of the football team's 2005 campaign, plans had already been made to introduce the current Tigers to the members of Princeton's 1995 Ivy League champion squad.With their 30-13 victory over Penn on Saturday ? which kept them in contention for the Ivy League crown ? this year's Tigers ensured that they and their celebrated forerunners would have something very exciting to chat about.After all, no Princeton team has fresher memories of what it feels like to win a league title than the 1995 squad, which finished with an Ivy record of 5-1-1 and was the last Tiger team to win the league.For those accomplishments, the 1995 team will be honored at a Princeton Football Association banquet this Friday and with an on-field halftime ceremony during the Tigers' homecoming game against Yale the next day.But it might be more appropriate, historically speaking, for the festivities to be rescheduled for Princeton's season-ending contest against Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H.It was in those exact same circumstances, after all, that the Tigers of 10 years ago found themselves on the last weekend of the 1995 season, needing a tie against the Big Green to secure the Ivy League championship."It was cold," Steve Tosches, the Princeton head coach at the time, said, "and there was a point where it was snowing so hard in that football game that it was a whiteout.

SPORTS | 11/08/2005

The Daily Princetonian

With just two weekends left, Ivy race going down to wire

"Who would have thought..." seems to be a constant refrain in football. It is a phrase that encompasses the true beauty of the sport in which upsets happen on any given Saturday, unexpected stars rise and surprise finishes seem like the rule rather than the exception.That phrase is also the perfect description of the Ivy League football season to date, with Princeton (6-2 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) ? picked to finish sixth in the league in the preseason ? controlling its own destiny while perennial powers Harvard (5-3, 3-2) and Penn (5-3, 3-2) trail behind.

SPORTS | 11/08/2005

The Daily Princetonian

With just two weekends left, Ivy race going down to wire

"Who would have thought..." seems to be a constant refrain in football. It is a phrase that encompasses the true beauty of the sport in which upsets happen on any given Saturday, unexpected stars rise and surprise finishes seem like the rule rather than the exception.That phrase is also the perfect description of the Ivy League football season to date, with Princeton (6-2 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) ? picked to finish sixth in the league in the preseason ? controlling its own destiny while perennial powers Harvard (5-3, 3-2) and Penn (5-3, 3-2) trail behind.

SPORTS | 11/08/2005

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The Daily Princetonian

Guelich, Tigers blank Lions

The weather may be cooling down, but the men's soccer team is just starting to heat up. In a chilly contest last night under the lights at Lourie-Love Field, the Tigers (6-7-3 overall, 3-2-1 Ivy League) defeated Columbia, 1-0, in a contest that was decided primarily by defense.

SPORTS | 11/08/2005

The Daily Princetonian

Tigers ruled Ivy League in 1995

Before the first snap of the football team's 2005 campaign, plans had already been made to introduce the current Tigers to the members of Princeton's 1995 Ivy League champion squad.With their 30-13 victory over Penn on Saturday ? which kept them in contention for the Ivy League crown ? this year's Tigers ensured that they and their celebrated forerunners would have something very exciting to chat about.After all, no Princeton team has fresher memories of what it feels like to win a league title than the 1995 squad, which finished with an Ivy record of 5-1-1 and was the last Tiger team to win the league.For those accomplishments, the 1995 team will be honored at a Princeton Football Association banquet this Friday and with an on-field halftime ceremony during the Tigers' homecoming game against Yale the next day.But it might be more appropriate, historically speaking, for the festivities to be rescheduled for Princeton's season-ending contest against Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H.It was in those exact same circumstances, after all, that the Tigers of 10 years ago found themselves on the last weekend of the 1995 season, needing a tie against the Big Green to secure the Ivy League championship."It was cold," Steve Tosches, the Princeton head coach at the time, said, "and there was a point where it was snowing so hard in that football game that it was a whiteout.

SPORTS | 11/08/2005

The Daily Princetonian

Princeton knocks off Big Green

Trailing Harvard by two goals with one minute, 14 seconds remaining to play on Nov. 5, the women's hockey team pulled its goalie for a sixth skater ? and the risky tactic yielded results.Senior forward Sarah Butsch punched the puck into the back of the net, with the handy assist going to junior defender Dina McCumber.

SPORTS | 11/07/2005

The Daily Princetonian

Princeton knocks off Big Green

Trailing Harvard by two goals with one minute, 14 seconds remaining to play on Nov. 5, the women's hockey team pulled its goalie for a sixth skater ? and the risky tactic yielded results.Senior forward Sarah Butsch punched the puck into the back of the net, with the handy assist going to junior defender Dina McCumber.

SPORTS | 11/07/2005