The football program spews a lot of propaganda about how any team can beat any other on its schedule and how the Ivy League is characterized by parity.
Junior Emily Behncke has made a tough transition this year look easy. After two seasons playing in the Tiger midfield, Behncke moved to forward after the arrival of freshman midfielder Diana Matheson, a member of the Canadian national team.Behncke showed just how comfortable she is in her new position this weekend against Vanderbilt.
For the first time in Princeton women's lightweight crew history, somebody other than Heather Smith will grace the decks of the boathouse this season.This July, former head coach Smith announced that she would not be returning for an eighth year.
If a philosophy major attends a football game at Princeton Stadium, he might find himself considering a challenging question: are the stands half-empty or half-full?In five home games last season, the Tigers drew an average of 13,270 fans, or less than one half of the stadium's 27,800 capacity.
Recently, senior writer Daniel Satterfield sat down with senior forward Ryan Rich of the men's soccer team.
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.
