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.
It didn't take new head coach Joe Scott '87 long to figure out who the heart and soul of his basketball team would be.Even as he spent four years in Colorado Springs, Colo., resurrecting the Air Force program, he kept tabs on his Tigers back in New Jersey.
At 4:30 p.m. on Monday, the women's soccer team got its best news since senior forward Esmeralda Negron decided to matriculate four years ago.The team received the seventh seed for the upcoming 64-team NCAA Tournament that begins this Friday.
With the men's basketball team tipping off its season tomorrow night in Syracuse in the Coaches vs.
"Crash through that line of Blue And send the backs around the end! Fight! Fight for every yard! Princeton's honor to defend (rah rah rah!) Roar, Tiger!
Goals, nets, hurdles and bleachers. Playclocks, scoreboards and lights. Jadwin Gym, Baker Rink, Dillon Gym and DeNunzio Pool.That's just a small list of all the things the groundskeepers of Princeton University are responsible for in addition to keeping all the athletic fields and their immediate surroundings neat and tidy."They call them groundskeepers, but that really doesn't do them justice," John Cruser, Jr., says of his team.Cruser is the foreman of the athletics grounds crew at Princeton University ? that is to say, a grounds crew of six ? which makes the fact that those six take care of all of Princeton's athletics facilities all the more remarkable.This fall marks Cruser's 39th year working at the University.
Conference play has begun for the No. 8 women's hockey team.Accumulating a record of 1-1 this weekend on the ice at Baker Rink, the Tigers (2-1-1 overall, 1-1-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference) opened their ECAC season with a 3-0 loss to No.
Women's soccer closed out its regular season last Saturday after a 4-1 trouncing of Penn in which senior forward Esmeralda Negron earned a hat trick and an assist during the game ? all in the first half.
It was a historic night in South Philadelphia on Friday as the sprint football team (0-6 overall, 0-4 CSFL) lost both its season finale to Penn (4-2, 2-2), 61-28, and its record-setting 35th consecutive game.
Hitchcock visits Penn hockeyWith the National Hockey League hopelessly mired in a prolonged lockout, professional players and coaches alike have had to find other activities to occupy their time.
It was a weekend of shutouts on the road for men's hockey (1-2-1 overall, 1-1-0 ECAC), which came up on the short end of the stick Friday night against Vermont (5-4-1, 2-0-0) ? one of men's hockey's powerhouses ? but rebounded to capture the win on Saturday versus Dartmouth (1-1-0 ECAC).Despite sophomore goaltender B.J.
Men's squash had a chance to see where it stood among its conference peers this weekend when it played in the Ivy Scrimmages.
Long before junior Derek Javarone pushed a 41-yard field goal wide right with 23 seconds left to play on Saturday afternoon, allowing Penn to escape New Jersey with a 16-15 win, the football team blew its best chances at victory.If the Tigers (4-4 overall, 2-2 Ivy League) had taken advantage of their first-quarter opportunities ? five possessions with an average starting position of the Quaker 38-yard line ? they wouldn't have needed any last-second heroics.
Every athlete dreams of scoring the game-winning goal as time expires. No one dreams of giving it up.On Friday night, under the normally friendly lights of 1952 Stadium, the field hockey team suffered the unthinkable, losing 2-1 to Penn on a Quaker goal that crossed the line as time expired.The loss was Princeton's second in the Ivy League this year.
Head coach Glenn Nelson made history on Friday by winning his 500th game. Unfortunately for the women's volleyball team's title hopes, win number 501 wasn't in the cards this weekend.Number 500 came against Columbia on Friday night in Dillon Gym, as the Tigers (16-7 overall, 7-4 Ivy League) swept the Lions (3-21, 1-11) in three games.
As fans and players on both sides of Princeton Stadium invoked their respective gridiron gods through silent and vociferous fourth quarter petitions, junior placekicker Derek Javarone's 41-yard field goal attempt with 18 seconds remaining in the game sailed wide right by inches, ending Princeton's hopes of an upset.
The horn blew, calling for a substitution. A look at the clock showed there to be six minutes, one second remaining in the first half.
With a chance for an Ivy crown hanging in the balance on Saturday night at Lourie-Love Field, the men's soccer team held on to defeat rival Penn, 1-0, on a Ben Young goal.
