An old sports adage opines that offense wins games while defense wins championships. For Princeton football, the need to win games is a more immediate goal than securing the Ivy League championship.
When head coach Roger Hughes was brought to Princeton in 2000 to restore the program to prominence, he was expected to bring a high-powered West Coast offensive system with him that would modernize the Tiger attack.
As painful as last year's 2-8 debacle was for the football team, it may have been even more trying for three teammates who were unable to even suit up.After all, if those three players ? senior linebacker Zak Keasey, senior safety Brandon Mueller, and junior cornerback Jay McCareins ? had been in uniform instead of academically ineligible, things might have gone quite differently.
Men's soccer had its home opener against Drexel at Lourie-Love Field last night, revenging last week's loss to Akron with a 3-0 win over Drexel.Both teams entered the game off a loss.
For most college freshmen, the transition from high school to college can be daunting. Adding to the normal angst, Princeton freshmen emerge from accomplished secondary school careers in which their academic, athletic and extracurricular successes were unique among their peers.
LafayettePrinceton opens its season with a home night game against Lafayette (2-0 overall), a middle of the pack Patriot league team last year.
"On Saturday November 6th, Princeton sent twenty-five picked men to play our twenty-five a match game of football."So began the account of the first intercollegiate football game in the Rutgers Targum of November, 1869, and so began intercollegiate football as we know it.Not really as we know it, actually.
It's almost as if they were trying to get it wrong. And this one was so easy to get right.Late last month, the NCAA made its latest misstep when it denied Mike Williams athletic eligibility for the upcoming football season.
The women's golf team will kick off its 2004 campaign with not only a great deal of confidence, but also the weight of lofty expectations on its shoulders.
From the 1986-1987 season to the 2002-2003 season, a team from Princeton won a national championship.
Former men's basketball coach John Thompson '88 often said that while his teams played many games from October to March, the real season took place within the walls of the Ancient Eight.
Men's and women's cross country both started their seasons this weekend with a spring in their steps.
Men's golf opened its fall season this weekend at the Navy Fall Invitational. Junior Jason Gerken paced the Tigers, finishing tied for second overall as Princeton finished sixth as a team.The Tigers led the tournament after the first of two rounds at the U.S.
While the majority of Princeton's student population know that its school once again resides at the pinnacle of the U.S.
Winning games is not the only trend the men's water polo team (5-0) is starting this year; they are also adding mustaches to their "To Do" list with mixed reviews."We decided to go with team mustaches this year.
When Villanova and Vanderbilt showed up on the women's soccer's team's schedule, the only 'V' Princeton could think about was victory.After defeating Villanova on Friday in Philadelphia, 1-0, the Tigers set their claws on Vanderbilt in a 3-0 route starring junior forward Emily Behncke."They were coming into the game 0-3, so they had nothing to lose," head coach Julie Shackford said.
Losing is bad enough, but being blown out of the water by the opposition is even worse. Men's soccer learned that lesson the hard way on Friday night, suffering a humiliating 6-0 loss against No.
After a strong season last fall, women's volleyball returns to the court this year with high expectations and lofty goals.
Five of the players on the men's soccer team (1-0) remember when Princeton won the Ivy League title and went to the NCAA tournament in 2001.
2003 was a banner year for women's cross country, when in less than three months the program went from being virtually unknown at the national level to a top-10 finish at the NCAA Championships.On the men's side, however, a new coach, new lead runners, and new talent will be put to the test this year after a disappointing 2003.The women, led by returning All-American junior Cack Ferrell, now hope to prove that last season was no fluke.
