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Sprint football's streak examined

Sprint football's streak examined

They say that all streaks must come to an end. However, there does not seem to be an end in sight for the sprint football team's 31-game (and counting) losing streak.The streak, the second longest NCAA Division I men's losing streak of all time (second to Northwestern football's 34-game skid from 1979-1982), started in October of 1999 against Penn.

SPORTS | 10/05/2004

Undefeated football would be lost without McCareins' heroics

My last memory of junior defensive back Jay McCareins prior to this season was Oct. 19, 2002. I was cruising the sideline at the football game against Brown, heading for the locker room to help coordinate the postgame press conference.

SPORTS | 10/05/2004

Women's soccer blanks Rutgers in 'ugly game'

Even while they played what head coach Julie Shackford called "an ugly game," No. 12 women's soccer (8-1 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) defeated cross-state rival Rutgers (6-7 overall) by a score of 1-0 last night on a chilly New Jersey evening under the lights of Lourie-Love Field.

SPORTS | 10/05/2004

The story of Princeton's football stadiums

This is the fourth in a series of articles on the history of Princeton football in honor of its 135th anniversary.Football, one of the longest standing traditions in college and American history, has its roots on this campus.

SPORTS | 10/05/2004

Energetic Sell takes over w. tennis while still in grad school

Sitting next to Kathy Sell, one cannot help but be infected with the enthusiasm she exudes as she discusses her new job.Sell has assumed the reigns of the women's tennis program from Louise Gengler.

SPORTS | 10/05/2004

Harvard blows away men's tennis at ECACs in N.Y.

Revenge is sweet, which is why the Princeton men's tennis team simply can not wait until April.The Tigers were routed, 6-1, by Harvard in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championship this weekend in Flushing Meadow, N.Y.

SPORTS | 10/05/2004

Depth drives women's golf to third-place finish in Pa.

Women's golf takes the phrase "from dawn 'til dusk" to the extreme. While students on campus were sound asleep on Saturday morning, the Tigers were at a golf course in University Park, Pa.

SPORTS | 10/04/2004

Field hockey trapped in Spiders' web

The rollercoaster ride continued for the field hockey team this weekend as it eked out a 5-4 come-from-behind victory over Boston University on Friday but fell to the No.

SPORTS | 10/04/2004

M. water polo 2-2 at NorCal Tourney

Going into this weekend, the men's water polo team was 10-1 and one of the premier squads on the East Coast.

SPORTS | 10/04/2004

Quakers blow away sprint football

The sprint football gods watching over Frelingheysen Field on Friday night did the same thing they have done for the past five seasons ? nothing.With a 49-8 loss at the hands of the University of Pennsylvania (2-0) in front of a sparse crowd of 325, Princeton fell to 0-2 on the season and continued its streak of 31 consecutive losses dating back to 1999.The Tigers' lone touchdown came late in the second quarter courtesy of senior quarterback Dennis Bakke's 55-yard touchdown pass down the left side of the field to freshman wide-receiver Lon Johnson.

SPORTS | 10/04/2004

W. cross country crushes Harvard, Yale in H-Y-P meet

Junior Cack Ferrell shares at least one thing in common with George Washington ? an impressive victory on Princeton Battlefield.Ferrell led the women's cross country team to a rout of Harvard and Yale on Saturday with a course-record time of 17 minutes, 12 seconds in the final race on the course.The men's team was not quite as dominant at the Notre Dame Invitational, fighting its way to an 11th-place finish.Senior Austin Smith came up with a breakthrough performance.

SPORTS | 10/04/2004

M. soccer plays Dartmouth to scoreless tie at home

Soccer has often been called the "beautiful game" by its fans. But on Saturday, when the men's soccer team hosted Dartmouth in its Ivy League opener at Lourie-Love Field, the game was anything but beautiful, as the Tigers (4-2-2 overall, 0-0-1 Ivy League) battled Dartmouth (2-1-4, 0-0-1) to a 0-0 tie.The result came as a disappointment to the Tigers, as they were confident that they could have won the game."It was a tough game, and we didn't really play well," sophomore midfielder Jame Wunsch said.

SPORTS | 10/03/2004

W. soccer takes revenge on reigning Ivy champ Dartmouth

Reading about Princeton and Dartmouth's history in women's soccer is a lot like reading about some age-old feud: the Montagues and the Capulets minus the love story; the Hatfields and the McCoys minus the guns and Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield minus the ear thing.

SPORTS | 10/03/2004

W. volleyball edges Penn, Juniata

For most players on the women's volleyball team, mentioning Penn brings back a stream of bad memories.It was Penn that defeated Princeton in the Ivy League opener three years in a row.

SPORTS | 10/03/2004

Tigers clip Columbia in overtime despite mistakes

NEW YORK ? "Winning masks a lot of problems," head football coach Roger Hughes warned late Saturday afternoon, but it wasn't as if anyone was fooled.No, on this day, the problems were far too egregious to be masked.

SPORTS | 10/03/2004

Tigers stretch win streak to three

NEW YORK ? Football is seldom a game of perfection, and the level of play by the Princeton football team on Saturday certainly proved that point.

SPORTS | 10/03/2004

W. volleyball 'not scared' of Penn

In the world of Ancient Eight sports, there are certain things that one can take for granted. Penn or Princeton ? and usually both ? will be near the top of the men's basketball standings.

SPORTS | 09/30/2004

Athletics department policy on alcohol is unfair to athletes

The sports page isn't the place for rants about this university's failed social policies and inability to think like or relate to the students.

SPORTS | 09/30/2004

Columbia first on Ivy League slate for football

Ivy League football is famous for many reasons. Over the years the nation's oldest athletic association has been home to Heisman Trophy winners and national champions.

SPORTS | 09/30/2004

Field hockey tries to get back on track in weekend homestand

Hold on tight. This season is turning out to be one heck of a roller coaster ride for the Princeton field hockey team.The Tigers showed vast improvement and even glimmers of brilliance in defeating Columbia last Friday, only to lose in overtime to a tough No.

SPORTS | 09/30/2004

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