Hope springs eternal this weekend in the world of sports. The Boston Red Sox, longtime losers in so many ways, finally threw the proverbial monkey off their backs.
During this past week of enormous caffeine consumption, lack of sleep and grueling cram sessions, most Princeton students maintained their sanity by knowing that Fall Break would bring a restful vacation of laying out at the beach or lounging beside the pool.It is quite another story for the men's water polo team.The Tigers are coming off of a four-win weekend, decisively defeating Salem International, Bucknell, Johns Hopkins and George Washington to improve their record to 16-4 (8-0 Collegiate Water Polo Association Southern Division). Princeton, led by sharpshooting junior driver John Stover, will not spend Fall Break resting or lounging.The upcoming vacation is a crucial time for the Tigers.
The story is a familiar one. It's one of the final weekends in October; the leaves are changing colors and beginning to cover the athletic fields, and walking around in the crisp autumn air without a jacket is getting a little uncomfortable.
Work, work, work.Whether from parents at home, an English professor or Chuck Norris on those late-night infomercials trying to sell the new and improved Organoflexilizer, many a student at Princeton has probably heard these words at one time or another.For the players on the women's soccer team these words hold special significance heading into this weekend.
To be the best, you have to beat the best, and women's volleyball has satisfied that requirement so far this season.Already with wins over last season's champion, Penn, and this season's leader Harvard, Princeton (13-4 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) is a half-game back of the first-place Crimson (10-6, 5-1) in the Ivy race after a thrilling 3-2 (30-25, 30-19, 26-30, 25-30, 15-8) victory Saturday at Dillon Gym.
Men's soccer finds itself in a position that has been quite unfamiliar in recent years ? sitting atop the Ivy League standings, tied with Penn with a 2-0-1 league record.The next week will determine whether Princeton (6-3-3 overall) is a true contender for the title, as it hosts Harvard (7-5-0 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) on Saturday before traveling to Ithaca a week later to take on the Big Red (1-9-0, 0-3-0).In between the games next Wednesday, the Tigers will host St.
With the National Hockey League in a lockout this season, it's not just the players who have extra free time.Philadelphia Flyers head coach Ken Hitchcock has the joined the coaching staff for Princeton men's hockey as an interim assistant, according to an announcement Monday from the athletic department.New Tiger head coach Guy Gadowsky phoned Hitchcock this fall to talk hockey when the Flyers coach offered to help out.No other details of the arrangement were released.Gadowsky and Hitchcock bring fresh faces to a program sorely in need of a new beginning.
Harvard is coming to town this weekend. And I don't mean the football team. Or the field hockey team, nor men's or women's soccer.
Think your schedule is crammed? Take one look at the recreational facilities on campus and then decide who never gets a break.
The illustrious history of Princeton University is ripe with the contributions of great Canadians who chose to make their way into this country and descend upon the state of New Jersey.
My roommate, Chris, and I were sitting in the WPRB studio Friday night, about to wax for an hour on the airwaves about all things Sport.
Practice every weekday at 4 p.m. for two and a half hours. Tempo runs, interval training, hill workouts.
Ah, tailgates. On October Saturdays across the nation, college kids everywhere wake up early, not for class or for work but for something much more important.
Senior forward Esmeralda Negron appears to be generally unsatisfied with letting bygones be bygones.Entering the year with 27 career goals, Negron seems intent on rewriting Princeton's record books by the time she steps out of FitzRandolph Gate.
This is the sixth in a series of articles on the history of Princeton football in honor of its 135th anniversary.In the fall of 1950 the American economy was booming, A&W Root Beer Co. was founded, the Soviets had become a nuclear power, Disney's Cinderella had just opened, the Korean War had begun and, for the first time in decades, Princeton football looked to have a very promising season.Under the charismatic leadership of newly hired head coach Charlie Caldwell '25, the Tigers entered the 1950 season coming off two winning seasons and the first three Big Three wins since 1939.
The men's golf team is finally having the season they had expected to have before the year began.
The field hockey team aced at least one midterm last weekend. Midway through a season full of ups and downs, the Tigers notched key shutout victories against two Ivy League foes.
With Easterns and Southerns approaching, men's water polo (16-4 overall, 8-0 Collegiate Water Polo Association) has put its record back on track by adding four wins this weekend.
Though it wasn't exactly a dark and stormy night, Princeton's cross country team faced conditions that would most aptly be described as a dark and cold and windy and not-so-nice day.Despite the adverse conditions, junior Cack Ferrell managed to continue her streak of impressive performances with a tenth-place finish (20:52) over the six-kilometer course at the NCAA Pre-National Invitational meet, held at Indiana State University in Terra Haute, Indiana.The women's cross country team finished seventh overall, behind several cross country powerhouses, such as Stanford and Notre Dame.Meanwhile, the men's team found itself blown off course by the stiff and cold winds.
To most people on campus, Don Betterton is the director for undergraduate financial aid: the guy who was at the core of the drive to implement Princeton's current "no-loan" policy, which replaces loans with grants so that the over 50 percent of students currently helped by financial aid don't have to repay anything.
