A week ago, against Lehigh, sophomore quarterback David Splithoff threw the ball 39 times for the football team.
To those students who required the lure of body-warming ? or numbing as the case may be ? beverages to vacate their toasty rooms and amble a half-mile in the bitter fall air to Prospect Avenue this weekend, members of the Princeton women's golf team offer little sympathy.This past weekend at the Nittany Lion Invitational at Penn State, the Tigers spent upwards of 11 hours on the links shooting three rounds of 18 holes; their perceptive insulation from the cold lay in competitive focus however, not imbibed sensory depressants.In a challenging field, Princeton placed sixth, shooting 933 for three rounds.
In a microcosm of the roller-coaster season the women's volleyball team has had so far, the Tigers went 2-2 in the 19th Annual ASICS Collegiate Volleyball Invitational this weekend, sandwiching two losses with victories to start and end the tournament.
In a league in which more than one quarterback accumulates 3000 yards a season while the running back plays second fiddle, giving a great deal of credit to the running game may appear slightly odd.But it was from this position that Princeton was able to dominate Saturday's game against Columbia, piling up massive yardage on the ground, thereby freeing up the passing attack to make the big plays.Due to junior running back Cameron Atkinson's ability to find the openings and hit them, as well as the offensive line's improvement from the Lehigh game to Columbia, the Tigers were able to control the ball and continue the drives that put 44 points on the board.Last week's game against the Mountain Hawks was not kind to the Princeton offense.
"This is one of the best men's water polo games I've seen in my life," declared an excited fan after the end of the second overtime.
In a game rife with big plays on both sides of the ball, the football team caged the Columbia Lions, 44-11, Saturday night in Princeton Stadium.
Fifty-four penalties, two yellow cards and one red card, and that was just what the referee saw. In its most physical game this season, the men's soccer team was unable to match its strong play from earlier in the season.Still undefeated, the Tigers (3-0-2, 1-0-1) played to a double-overtime 0-0 tie with Columbia on Saturday evening.
At the beginning of the season, the field hockey team is concentrating on winning the Ivy League championship and making a run at the national title.
While a good offense is something to brag about, it is a good defense that wins games. Just look at the women's soccer team.
The 'Prince' Picks Team Ivy record 1. Penn 7-0 2. Harvard 5-2 3. Brown 4-3 4.
When it comes to football aphorisms, perhaps none is more hackneyed than "We have to stop the run."In the Ivy League, where most of the coaches are as pass-happy as Steve Spurrier of the Fun and Gun, the cliche increasingly seems obsolete.
Learning from last year's slow start, Princeton survived its first test, beating Dartmouth, 3-0. But this weekend's opponent plays a very different style and the Tigers know that they have not proven anything yet.Tomorrow, Princeton will open its home Ivy League schedule with Columbia ? a big, fast and aggressive team.Princeton (3-0-1 overall, 1-0 Ivy) has started its season just as it hoped, undefeated and tied for first in the Ivy League.
We live in a world obsessed with ratings, rankings, scores and statistics.Thousands of people spend their days, sometimes their lives, entering even the most obscure sports results into computer programs so that players and fans can have a better understanding of where they and their teams stand.A lot of people apparently feel that sports can be broken down like a science, that if they squeeze enough past performance into some magical formula they'll end up with the truth about a team or player.
The NBA. Probably not the most obvious parrallel to collegiate women's soccer one could find.On the other hand, if you're looking for examples of former players who have hung up their Air Jordans and become coaches, there is no more fertile ground than the National Basketball Association.
In the first quarter of men's water polo's game at George Washington Friday the No. 14 Tigers were down 5-1 to the inferior Colonials.Then junior driver Robert Urquhart, (above, No.
Leonardo DiCaprio may have been somewhat delusional when he declared himself to be the king of the world, but senior diver Danielle Stramandi's situation is somewhat different.
In my three plus years here at Princeton, I have been to approximately 27 football games, 46 men's basketball games including the NCAA Tournament in New Orleans, two women's ice hockey games, 12 men's lacrosse games, a rugby tournament and the dedication of the new wrestling room.And I didn't cover a single one of them for the 'Prince'. As a sports fan who knew he was not destined for a spot on a varsity squad at Princeton, I knew I wanted to stay in some way involved with watching and dealing with sports.So when I walked onto campus for the first time as a freshman, I was determined to join two groups.
In the first full week of Ivy League action this season, Princeton took home much of the league hardware as junior attack Ilvy Friebe was named Ivy League field hockey player of the week, senior forward Mike Nugent was the men's soccer player of the week and freshman forward Kristina Fontanez was the Ivy League women's soccer Rookie of the Week.
In the wake of last week's walloping by Lehigh, the eyes of many Tiger fans fell on the young and inexperienced offensive line.
It was not supposed to be an intrasquad tournament.It just turned out that way.The singles competition at the 33rd Annual Farnsworth Invitational this past weekend was dominated by Tigers, as men's tennis placed three of its own in the semifinals and two in the finals.In the final match, senior Judson Williams defeated his roommate, senior Darren Joe, 6-2, 7-5 to take the individual title.
