NEW HAVEN, CONN. ? Both Princeton and Yale celebrated scores three times in Saturday's game at the Yale Bowl.
By halftime Friday night at Lourie-Love Field, where the Princeton Tigers were battling the Central Connecticut State Blue Devils in the first round of the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship tournament, physical play and heavy rain had combined to turn the jerseys of both teams into a muddy shade of brown.Still, the colors that lay beneath all that muck were able to assume significant symbolic value, as the artistry of the white-collar Princeton team prevailed over the scrappiness of their blue-collar opponent in a 5-0 Tigers' victory.Crisp touch passes and the brilliant play of senior forward Esmeralda Negron, who managed two goals and two assists despite the rain and temperatures in the mid-30's, were what pleased the crowd of 325, but the key to victory was Princeton's willingness to get as dirty as its opponents.Fighting against Blue Devil defenders as much as the sloppy conditions, the Tigers took control of the game in the 10th minute with two goals separated by less than 30 seconds.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. ? They may not have been in mid-season form, but on this opening night of the 2004-2005 season, the performance the men's basketball team turned in was good enough to earn a "W."Despite shaky rebounding and a few offensive lapses, Princeton (1-0) controlled play most of the way and pulled away in the final 10 minutes for a 61-48 victory over Bucknell (0-1).Sophomore forward Luke Owings, making his first career start, led the way with 21 points, including four three-pointers.
It's crunch time. With the postseason looming and one game left, men's soccer (8-4-1 overall, 3-1-2 Ivy League) is hoping to beat Yale and sneak into the playoffs.Even if the Tigers beat Yale (6-10, 3-3), Brown must also take down Dartmouth for Princeton to win a share of the Ivy League championship.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. ? After taking care of business against Bucknell, 61-48, the men's basketball team will get the opportunity it came here looking for: a chance to play No.
Here's a quick game of good news, bad news. Good news ? the women's volleyball team is still alive in the race for the Ivy League title heading into this weekend's action.
As Princeton students scan the Course Offerings catalogue over the next few weeks, most will keep their eyes peeled for the perfect class ? one that combines some extracurricular interest with the area of study they have chosen to pursue.Unfortunately "Transatlantic Approaches to MC Hammer's 'U Can't Touch This' " and "Beirut and the Human Response" will exist forever only in the imagination.One can then imagine the sense of serendipity that Katy O'Brien, a junior pursuing a degree in Political Economy and the starting point guard for the Princeton women's basketball team, must have felt upon learning at the beginning of this school year of a course to be taught in the Fall semester called "The Political Economy of Sports.""It is very relevant to my experience as a student-athlete," O'Brien said of the class.
For the seniors on the football team, the time has come when the word legacy seems very important.
Senior forward Esmeralda Negron carried the ball upfield, played it out to the right after the Penn keeper came out of the box and sent it into the back of the net over the diving goalie's body.
The men's water polo team is undoubtedly the barracuda in a small pond. The No. 12 Tigers handily won the Southern Championship and have dominated their opponents with a 22-4 overall record this year.
Although every other Princeton sport competes in the postseason, football, a Division I-AA sport, must content itself with contesting only for an Ivy League championship.In 1951, the emerging coalition of Ivy League athletic programs adopted an eight-point code of amateurism to govern its collegiate football teams.
Beat up, banged up and in the middle of one of the more grueling parts of its schedule, the women's hockey team now faces a key weekend series the Tigers hope can set the tone for the rest of their season.Princeton, currently No.
The men's basketball team tips off a new season in Syracuse, N.Y., nearly seven months after their season came to an abrupt end in Denver.
If history has shown one thing, it is the certainty of change. For Princeton's cross country runners, then, it is not surprising that historic Princeton Battlefield Park will no longer be their home course.While the Tigers have been running meets at the park since 1992, the New Jersey State Department of Parks and Recreation has decreed that the Tigers cannot hold competitions there any longer because of its historical significance.The Princeton women's teamwon the last meet held at the Battlefield against Harvard and Yale.
"I am the teacher of athletes. He that by me spreads a wider breast than my own proves the width of my own.
For basketball fans at UConn, Stanford or Duke, seeing thousands of zealous students at a game is the norm rather than the exception.
Although senior center Judson Wallace is now a captain of men's basketball, a team which is forecast to handily win the Ivy League and take another trip to the NCAA tournament, he fondly remembers the humble beginnings of his freshman year.
No bonfire. Eh, how many of us can actually say that they expected one before the football season started?Is it disappointing?
The temperature is dropping, the days are getting shorter and a successful 2004 fall sports season is coming to close here at Princeton.
Freshmen Meagan Cowher of Pennsylvania, Ariel Rogers of Illinois and Ali Prichard of Minnesota hail from all across the country, but they each have two things in common.
