A combination of inexperience, rustiness, and a more talented opponent spoiled the football team's debut Saturday night against Lehigh.
The field hockey team took another small step towards success, improving upon a marginal win last week against Yale.The Tigers (4-1 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) maintained their course for a tenth consecutive Ivy League title by beating Dartmouth (0-3, 0-2), 5-1, on Saturday in Hanover, N.H.The win was an important one, sending a message to the rest of the Ivy League that last week's near-collapse against Yale, where the Tigers escaped with a 5-4 overtime win only after allowing the Elis to storm back, was a fluke.This time, Princeton once again gained a large lead, but never let the Big Green come back.It was the Tigers' first Ivy League game away from home, and things started out a bit slowly on the offensive end, despite the fact that they were in full control of the game.Although Dartmouth did not even muster a shot in the first half, it took the Tigers a lengthy 24 minutes to score their first goal.
The football team lost, 28-13, Saturday night against Lehigh. Much of what happened in the game was expected.
Talented. Energetic. Passionate.Time and again, everyone asked to describe field hockey head coach Kristen Holmes-Winn repeats the same words.
After winning nine straight Ivy League titles, it's hard not to have high expectations for this year's field hockey team.The experts at STX/NFHCA (National Field Hockey Coaches Association) seem to share this view, ranking the Tigers at No.
"Finally we play."So said head football coach Roger Hughes in eager anticipation of this Saturday's match-up with Lehigh (2-0), broadcast on WPRB 103.3 FM.All of Princeton's game experience so far this year has been in two scrimmages ? against Yale and against itself.On the other hand, the Mountain Hawks will be playing their third game of the year.There are two schools of thought about the advantage in such a situation.
Having traveled to Philadelphia to open its season with the Penn/Kappa Classic, the men's soccer team will take its turn to roll out the red carpet this weekend in the Princeton Invitational at Lourie-Love Field.The Tigers will first play Loyola (3-2), hosting the Greyhounds at 7:00 pm on Friday.
Basketball star Nate Walton '01 for GovernorWith the race for the California gubernatorial seat heating up in one of the biggest political dramas in recent years, one former Princeton athlete hopes to bring some solutions to the problems that Californians face.
Ah, the joys of growing pains. Every sports team gets them at the beginning of every season. With most sports this isn't a problem, since all the teams start at the same time and work out their issues together like a large, dysfunctional family.
Black and Orange or Blue and Yellow?The question as to whose colors will rule the pool this weekend is what will keep men's water polo fans guessing as Princeton (4-0) and Navy face off in what will promise to be the highlight game of this weekend's set of Southern Division games.The Tigers begin their busy league weekend by travelling to the nation's capital on Friday to take on George Washington.
If the men's water polo team was worried about offensive production this season after saying goodbye to Kevin Foster '03 and Robert Urquhart '03, they certainly don't have to worry any longer.As the Tigers kicked off their season last weekend hosting the North/South Invitational, sophomore driver John Stover tallied 14 goals in the four wins for Princeton.
With the football team now bearing down on its season-opener Saturday night against Lehigh, and Hurricane Isabel bearing down on the East Coast, I sit to write my second installment of the armchair quarterback column.
Many Americans claim a dislike to soccer in part because of its low-scoring nature.The men's soccer team is a case in point of this characteristic.
The men's golf team has lost something. For the first time in three years, the Tigers start their season without the Ivy League trophy.
At the end of every practice the women's soccer team huddles together to complete the session in a word.
In the latest women's soccer poll, released yesterday, Princeton made its first appearance of the season, at No.
I have put off this column for many months, purposefully. However, after a long, dull summer I've been back on campus for a little over a week, and in my brief moments of sobriety I've observed that this campus might be doomed.In the waning weeks of summer there is only darkness ? do not be fooled by the heat nor by the light.
Relatively speaking, Princeton women's volleyball fared pretty well at the St. John's Classic this past weekend.Relatively speaking, because a 1-2 record does not reveal the Tigers' disadvantages.Princeton saw non-Ivy League action in Jamaica, N.Y., against Wagner, Long Island University and St.
While Princeton may have looked like a country club this weekend thanks to lawnparties, it was the women's golf team that actually found itself on the links.Spending the weekend at the Hanover Country Club for the Dartmouth Invitational, the women returned to Princeton with a first place win and team-record low of 299 and 300 for two rounds.
Before Saturday's meet at the Princeton Battlefield, head coach Pete Farrell told the women's cross country team to run as a pack.Coach Farrell got just what he wanted and then some.
