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The Daily Princetonian

If you don't go to the game, I'm never talking to you again

While a lead headline of "Princeton Pyromania" might be either a cause for alarm or an allusion to the gutted ruins of Ivy Club in "The Rule of Four," this weekend it could have more positive connotations as the rallying cry of the football team and faithful Tiger fans.A victory over Yale this weekend would green-light one of the more venerable Princeton traditions ? a bonfire on Cannon Green, signifying the Tigers' Big Three football supremacy.

SPORTS | 11/10/2005

The Daily Princetonian

Bonfire, Ivy Title on the line

For the first time in more than a decade, the football team will get to see whether or not it can start a fire.Princeton (6-2 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) will look to both earn its first bonfire since 1994 by completing a Harvard-Yale sweep and remain atop the Ivy League when it faces Yale (3-5, 3-2) this Saturday at Princeton Stadium."This is a very unique rivalry ... that takes on special significance regardless of what the records are," head coach Roger Hughes said.

SPORTS | 11/10/2005

The Daily Princetonian

Plans in the works for bonfire

The last time Princeton saw a bonfire ? a tradition arguably associated with more pride and grandeur than any other Princeton tradition ? Will Smith was still the Fresh Prince, Darius Rucker wasn't yet Hootie and Kato Kaelin was a witness, not a C-list celebrity.But if the football team defeats Yale on Saturday in a homecoming day matchup at Princeton Stadium, Cannon Green will soon be ablaze for the first time since 1994.It would be the 25th time the Tigers have earned a bonfire by beating both Harvard and Yale in the same season.

SPORTS | 11/09/2005

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The Daily Princetonian

Trial by Fire

On a chilly afternoon in early October, eight freshmen line up along the edge of the dock, lift their boat over their heads and slowly lower it into the water.

SPORTS | 11/09/2005

The Daily Princetonian

Trial by Fire

On a chilly afternoon in early October, eight freshmen line up along the edge of the dock, lift their boat over their heads and slowly lower it into the water.

SPORTS | 11/09/2005

The Daily Princetonian

Plans in the works for bonfire

The last time Princeton saw a bonfire ? a tradition arguably associated with more pride and grandeur than any other Princeton tradition ? Will Smith was still the Fresh Prince, Darius Rucker wasn't yet Hootie and Kato Kaelin was a witness, not a C-list celebrity.But if the football team defeats Yale on Saturday in a homecoming day matchup at Princeton Stadium, Cannon Green will soon be ablaze for the first time since 1994.It would be the 25th time the Tigers have earned a bonfire by beating both Harvard and Yale in the same season.

SPORTS | 11/09/2005

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