Two words spelled doom for Columbia women's soccer Friday night: Esmeralda Negron.Princeton's junior forward had a hand ? or foot, rather ? in all three of the Tigers' goals.
George Bernard Shaw once wrote: "When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity." Most crews came to the banks of the Charles River in Boston, Mass.
There has been much talk of curses in the past week, but one has gone unnoticed. While this curse pales in the face of the Chicago Cubs' futility or the Curse of the Bambino, the Columbia Curse has plagued the men's soccer team for nine years.The Tigers have gone winless against their Ivy League rivals in this period, a trend they tried to reverse on Saturday night at Lourie-Love Field.
Can't nobody hold 'em down ? that's the message Princeton was sending as it progressed through the Inter-Regional Competition held in DeNunzio Pool this past weekend.
On Senior Day, it was a freshman who led the field hockey team to its biggest victory of the season.Two early scores gave Princeton (9-3 overall, 5-0 Ivy League) all the scoring it would need to knock off No.
After the first three minutes, it looked like more of the same for football: a quick start, a turnover, a score for the opposition.After 60 minutes, however, Princeton headed to the showers as a winner.The Tigers (1-4 overall, 1-1 Ivy League) rode a defensive score, a 99-yard touchdown, a huge game from their tailback, and a 21-point fourth quarter to victory, topping Brown (1-4 overall, 0-2 Ivy League) at Brown Stadium in Providence, R.I., 34-14, on Saturday afternoon.Princeton stole the momentum from the Bears' homecoming festivities right away.
It should be a dazzling morning in Boston this Saturday when, on the banks of the Charles River, crews from all over the world will plunge their boats into the shimmering waters of the Northeast's most famous rowing venue and kickoff the 39th annual Head of the Charles Regatta.The Princeton men and women's crews, both light and heavyweight (open weight for women), will be among those boats navigating the mighty Charles, battling the majestic river in much the same way that their aristocratic predecessors, distinguished members of the Cambridge Boat Club, had for close to a century before.But the race itself has kept up with the times and is much more than just an elevated social event fit for garden parties and afternoon teas.
When the football team runs onto the field at Brown Stadium tomorrow, it will meet an evenly matched team and one of Princeton's few remaining chances to record a victory.
An Ivy League men's soccer season can be a long, hard road, full of ups and downs, big wins and difficult losses.
Opportunity.It has been a recurrent theme of the field hockey team's season thus far. Three times this season, Princeton (7-3 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) has faced teams ranked in the top 15 nationally, gunning to pull off an upset and establish itself as a national contender.This weekend, the Tigers have yet another opportunity to establish themselves on the national stage.
Every team has its unsung contributors. There are those who might not play often but still contribute tirelessly to daily practices.
After several successful games under the sun in California, the men's water polo team will host the Inter-Regional Competition this weekend.The Tigers made a strong impression on the West Coast, finishing the tourney 3-1 to bring their record to 14-2.
Don't stand on the tracks when the train is coming.Someone needs to remind Harvard (4-10 overall, 3-1 Ivy League) and Dartmouth (7-8, 1-3) of that as each must face the streaking Princeton women's volleyball team (9-5, 2-1) in matches this weekend.
This past weekend, men's lacrosse head coach Bill Tierney led a team onto the field for the first time in nearly six months.
Princeton's cross country teams are on the move again this weekend after a two-week rest. Women's and men's cross country will both be sending their top seven athletes to the Pre-National Invitational in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
The men's soccer team hung with host American for almost the entire first half in yesterday's contest.
"He's half-man, half amazing," sophomore goalie Gant Morgner said of men's water polo teammate John Stover.
This weekend the men's golf team heads to Penn for the Big Five Penn Classic. The Tigers have struggled throughout the fall, failing to find consistency among their players.It is important for the team to succeed this weekend, not only because it will be facing a Georgetown squad that is currently among the top teams in the region, but because the field will include Ivy League rivals Penn, Yale and Columbia.
On Oct. 2 Princetonian senior writer Zack Pierce, a Minnesota native and die-hard Twins fan, attended Yankee Stadium to root for his squad in a playoff game between baseball's bad boys and baseball's darlings."The Twins are going to beat the Yankees," my grandma said to Regis Philbin.
People who are out to find fault seldom find constructive insight. Take, for example, the case of the sprint football team.It is far too simplistic and even inaccurate to claim that the players are inherently maladroit and uncommitted, that the coaching staff lacks leadership and the creativity to design plays that take advantage of the team's strengths, and that the team is off the athletic department's support radar.
