The 1972 Dolphins were arguably the greatest NFL team in history. The 2001 Miami football team can be labeled as one of the greatest college teams in history.
The desire to look past Columbia and Cornell on the road, and to peer ahead to Tuesday's game against Penn, was enormous for the men's basketball team this weekend.
Naval Academy students spend much of their time learning to harness firepower in aquatic situations.
It was the kind of win that just made everything seem right for the struggling women's basketball team.On Friday night, Princeton (7-12 overall, 2-3 Ivy League) fell 75-66 to Columbia (10-8 overall, 3-2 Ivy League). The next night, the Tigers overcame a 37-26 halftime deficit to defeat Cornell (7-12, 1-5), 66-63, while also snapping a three-game losing streak in front of 3,000 screaming fans at Jadwin Gymnasium.
The Golden Knights of Clarkson University (11-14-1 overall, 8-6-1 Eastern College Athletic Conference) had hockey's version of the Midas touch Friday versus Princeton ? everything they touched turned to goals.Clarkson recorded five goals in the first period en route to a 7-3 victory against the Tigers (3-20, 2-14-0) at Baker Rink.Friday's game was far from close due to the Golden Knights barrage of goals in the first frame.
Women's hockey will be seeing red this weekend as the Orange and Black take a tour of New York to face the Big Red of Cornell (2-14-1 overall, 0-7-1 Eastern College Athletic Conference) Friday and the Red Raiders of Colgate (10-14-0 overall, 2-6-0 ECAC) Saturday, and they hope to see two wins along the way.Princeton (12-6-2 overall, 5-3-0 ECAC) had little trouble with either squad when the upstate foes visited Baker Rink in November.
The Princeton wrestling team is bearing down for a tough weekend of competition in which they will have dual meets against three of their Ivy League rivals.
With the men's basketball team's first game of two against Penn coming up on Tuesday, it can be tough to focus on the present.
This weekend offers the women's basketball team (6-11 overall) the opportunity to revive its 1-2 Ivy League record with back-to-back home games against Columbia and Cornell.Columbia is currently in third place in the Ivy League standings, right above fourth-place Princeton.
Former Princeton fencing coach Al Peters will return to Jadwin Gymnasium this weekend leading Cornell against women's fencing.
If the men's tennis team actually played basketball, their ntersession road trip would have been quite a formidable itinerary: the Tigers had three matches in as many days against North Carolina State, North Carolina and Duke to open up their spring season.In the event, the men's tennis team, of course, plays tennis, not basketball.
On Sunday, Jan. 26, 2003, having just finished preparing the most amazing feast imaginable (pizza, wings and nacho dip ? aptly named the Big Man Dip), I settled in for the greatest tradition mankind has ever known.
Senior wrestler Greg Parker had already etched his name into Princeton's all-time list of greatest wrestlers after his junior year, but on Saturday against Cornell, Parker not only defeated the No.
Coming down the stretch at last weekend's double-dual swim meet in Cambridge, the men of Princeton and Harvard sprinted neck-and-neck towards the finish line, as Yale languished behind in the dust.With only the 400 meter freestyle relay still to be swum, the Tigers and the Crimson were knotted at 168 points.
For those of you who had barely heard of squash before coming to Princeton, this weekend is an excellent chance to get acquainted with the sport.
I begin this article by posing a question: what moves at nearly 100 miles per hour, besides a disgruntled American Idol contestant's foot towards Simon's posterior?
'Prince' senior writer Chandra Russell recently sat down with Ashley Rook, a sophomore and former forward on the women's basketball team.Rook, from Naperville, Ill., played a total of 26 games as a freshman.
The women's fencing team struggled at this weekend's home tri-meet against Columbia, St. Johns and Rutgers.
While many were off skiing, hitting the beach, or just resting and recharging through more mundane means, the Princeton men's and women's track teams were hard at work training and competing in its 31st annual Indoor Relays meet held Jan.
One mention of the word basketball to any Princeton fan and the first things that come to mind are backdoor cuts, ball movement and three-pointers.
