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FTB 143: The 4-3 Defense (Or: In Case You've Never Played Madden 2000)

FTB 143: The 4-3 Defense (Or: In Case You've Never Played Madden 2000)

Last year Princeton football scored more points than it has in nearly a decade. That was good enough for second-worst in the Ivy League.High-flying offenses with accurate passers and athletic wide receivers have become a prerequisite for success in the Ancient Eight.Princeton has two choices: beat them or join them.

SPORTS | 09/16/2001

Rescheduled sports this week

Rescheduling from last weekendBoth the men's and women's cross country home meets were cancelled.

SPORTS | 09/16/2001

Men's Water Polo Preview

The difference between a successful and a disappointing season can be measured in minutes.In the opening minutes of last year's Southern Championships, Navy opened a big lead over Princeton.

SPORTS | 09/16/2001

With Sosa out, women's soccer to rely on freshmen to repeat Ivy success

The women's soccer team has bigger shoes to fill this upcoming season than ever before. Minus a graduated-star goalie and an injured senior captain, forced to face a perpetually tough Ivy League schedule while defending the legacy of last year's Ivy League champion team, the Tigers welcome one of the nation's top recruiting classes to fill the current void and to begin the uphill march to another title.Senior co-captain Kelly Sosa will be sorely missed after suffering a season-ending tear of her ACL before the start of the season.

SPORTS | 09/13/2001

Field hockey cruises by Drexel as Friebe continues to impress

For the field hockey team, the first two games of the season could accurately be described as 'The Ilvy Friebe Show." The junior attack hailing from Germany had scored five of No.

SPORTS | 09/13/2001

Men's soccer holds on to beat FDU in game's final seconds

Surging from the first whistle, Princeton sent an early message to Fairleigh Dickinson, as the Tigers pushed the Knights all over the field for the first 15 minutes of the game.In a very evenly played game, the Tigers took an early one goal lead, when freshman Adrian Melville tapped in a shot after sophomore Marty Shaw and freshman Ryan Rich drew the Knights goalie away from the net with 35 minutes, 11 seconds left in the first half.

SPORTS | 09/13/2001

Football game postponed

The Princeton-Lafayette football game scheduled for tomorrow night at Princeton Stadium has been postponed as Lafayette has decided to suspend all of its athletic contests through Sunday.

SPORTS | 09/13/2001

Youth reigns for inexperienced football squad

It is an undeniable fact that a chain is only as good as its weakest link. Hang a weight on it, and the weak link snaps, ruining the rest of the chain.

SPORTS | 09/13/2001

Nugent, back at full strength, sets sights on scoring crown

With fewer than ten minutes remaining in the first half against Seton Hall on Oct. 11, a hard slide tackle and bad luck ruined Mike Nugent's junior season, and drastically damaged the Princeton soccer team's offense.Before the season ending injury, Nugent led the Ivy League in goals scored and was headed for his second All-Ivy selection and possibly a second Ivy League championship.

SPORTS | 09/12/2001

Experienced Tigers to seek Ivy title, redemption after subpar season

The cards look good this year for the "Magnificent Seven" of men's soccer, though at the end of last season they must have felt that they'd been dealt a rough hand.The seven seniors, given their nickname for being one of the nation's best soccer recruiting classes, helped achieve an outright Ivy League title in 1999 and seemed primed in 2000 for a repeat performance.

SPORTS | 09/12/2001

Harris and Stramandi excel at World University Games

Last Spring, Princeton's men's track team and the women's swimming and diving squad obtained considerable success in both the Ivy League as well as NCAA's.

SPORTS | 09/12/2001

University decides to go ahead with competitions as planned

After Tuesday's horrific events in New York and Washington, few on campus thought of the joy and camaraderie of sports.

SPORTS | 09/12/2001

Nugent keys men's soccer in solid victory over Monmouth

The men's soccer team kicked off its season in style ? with a thorough 5-0 beating of Monmouth Saturday at Lourie-Love Field.

SPORTS | 09/11/2001

Field hockey opens with 2-0 record

Stepping onto the field this past weekend for the first time since a season-ending loss to Maryland in the NCAA Tournament last November, the field hockey team made quick work of non-conference rivals Northeastern and Syracuse.The Tigers first dropped the Huskies, 4-2, on Sept.

SPORTS | 09/11/2001

Pharris leads men's water polo to win at Princeton Invite

Last season, the men's water polo team compiled a 24-10 record, reached the finals of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships, won the Collegiate Water Polo division, and had its first-ever third-team All-American in junior Kevin Foster.Since then, though, the team has lost half of its starters to graduation ? four of whom started each of their four years at Princeton.

SPORTS | 09/11/2001

Princeton starts out season ranked fifth; After two easy wins Tigers look for more

Out of the nineteen women on this year's field hockey team there are nine freshmen and no seniors.

SPORTS | 09/11/2001

Rusty men's golf slips, falls to 16th place at Navy Fall Classic

Preparation is generally considered the key to success in athletic competition. Being a successful Division I team generally requires months of practice before the first game.

SPORTS | 09/11/2001

Iowa State easy prey for women's soccer

Though coming off of one of the best seasons in its history, after one game it seems that the women's soccer team has nowhere to go but up.In a rescheduled game that took place Sept.

SPORTS | 09/11/2001

Women's lacrosse falls to Terps in NCAA Tourney once again

Two old foes marred the women's lacrosse team's otherwise succesful season this year. Dartmouth kept the Tigers from an outright Ivy League title, and perhaps more importantly, Maryland ruined Princeton's run through the NCAA Tournament.In their first Tournament game, the Tigers defeated No.

SPORTS | 07/15/2001

Men's, women's track complete spring with solid IC4A results

Capping off a somewhat disappointing season for both teams, men's track finished fourth at the IC4A Championships and women 's track finished 23rd at the ECAC Championships, both of which were held May 17-20 at Weaver Stadium.The men's team began its season expecting to challenge for an IC4A championships, but distance runner Paul Morrison '02 and shot putter Scott Denbo '01 were both hampered by injuries throughout the year, while discus thrower Dennis Norman '01 left the team for the NFL.The depleted squad stumbled into IC4As, having lost to Penn at the Heptagonal Championships May 13-15.

SPORTS | 07/15/2001

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