Check out tomorrow's sports section for stories on what some notable Princetonians did in the athletic world over the summer.
For men's lacrosse (11-4 overall, 5-1 Ivy League), 2004 was a rebuilding year. When the season started, only four players on the team had ever started a game, and the freshman class was the biggest in years.
On Nov. 6, 1869, the first intercollegiate football game took place between Princeton and Rutgers in New Brunswick, with the Scarlet Knights winning, 6-4.
The baseball team has owned the Ivy League the past five years and continued that trend last season, as they were crowned Ivy League Champions for the second year in a row and fourth time in the past five years.
Softball (Ivy League record) 1. Cornell (10-4) 1. Brown (10-4) 3.
While most of the Princeton community was busy moving in last Friday, the men's soccer team opened their season in auspicious fashion, beating Loyola 3-2 at Alumnae Field in Baltimore, Md.Junior forward Darren Spicer led the Tigers with two goals, including the game winner in the 81st minute. Princeton strikes earlySpicer started off the scoring in the fourth minute after a foul by Loyola defenseman Gabriel Ortega in the box gave the Tigers a penalty kick.
Women's water poloAfter a highly successful regular season, the women's water polo team (24-9 overall) crashed back to Earth with a disappointing sixth-place finish at the Eastern Championships.Throughout the regular season the Tigers dominated their Southern Division opponents, including a five-goal victory over Harvard.
Princeton had little trouble taking down Colgate in the first round of the NCAA tournament last night.
Four nights ago found every cubicle in every library packed with students, computers and piles of books, as the Princeton community prepared itself for Dean's Date.
No. 6 men's lacrosse (5-1 Ivy League, 9-3 overall) makes its 15th consecutive appearance in the NCAA tournament, as it faces Rutgers in the opening round tomorrow at Class of 1952 Stadium at noon.Though Princeton shared the Ivy League title with Cornell, its loss to the Big Red meant that the Tigers needed one of the ten at-large bids up for grabs this past Monday.
With all its Ivy League foes vanquished, the two-time defending conference champion Princeton baseball team must now look ahead to an even larger task: the NCAA tournament.The NCAA tournament has not been kind to members of the Ivy League.
In what they hope will be an inexorable march toward lacrosse history, the women's team can now chant, "one down and three to go." Resolved to make their date with three-peat destiny, the Tigers took the first step in their personal four-step program to lacrosse excellence by vanquishing Colgate in their first-round NCAA championship tourney match, 18-6.After jumping out to an early lead courtesy of five goals in the first 15 minutes, Princeton (17-0 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) used unrelenting defensive pressure to force Colgate turnovers and prevent the Raiders from establishing a rhythm to get back into the game.
Approximately 30 football players have obtained special campus housing this summer in Edwards Hall as part of a pilot program coordinated by the Center for Visitor and Conference Services.
In what can only be called a disappointing end to the regular season, the men's and women's outdoor track and field teams fell short in their bids for Ivy League dominance at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships.The men finished third overall with 115.33 points, which was not good enough to overthrow the defending champions, Cornell.
For a man six months removed from what must have been the most heartbreaking season of his career, head football coach Roger Hughes appears surprisingly upbeat.
This weekend, the women's crew teams wrapped up their respective Ivy League seasons, in the same manner as the cast of Friends ? with a bit of drama.
If today marked the end of the season for the women's lacrosse team, most observers would declare the results a resounding success.
On the bus ride to Brown, one word lingered on the lips of each member of the men's lacrosse team: tradition.
This weekend, women's golf traveled to Norman, Ill., to compete at Illinois State in the NCAA Central Regional tournament.
Three years earlier, second baseman Steve Young, now a senior, had stepped into the very same batter's box in Hanover, N.H., with the situation identical.Freshman second baseman Aaron Prince knew the story well.
