A hockey game lasts for 60 minutes, and the team that plays the best for most of those minutes wins most of the games.
Last April, the University Board of Trustees approved the Wythes report, which stated that incoming Princeton undergraduate classes should be increased by 125 students.
Surprises have been a large part of the men's basketball team's season thus far. But in its Ivy League opening weekend at Jadwin Gym, the Tigers showed that little has changed in the league hierarchy.Playing their final two games with Bill Clinton in the White House, the Tigers ended the term doing exactly what they had been doing for most of it ? winning.
After dropping two more games this weekend, the men's hockey team earned a rematch. The Tigers again play an opponent that has plagued them for a month, buzzing like a gnat around their heads.
In basketball, it is often said that the season is split up into three separate mini-seasons: the pre-conference schedule, the conference games and the postseason.If this is the case, the women's basketball team started off its second season much the same way the first started, and, barring a miraculous turnaround, it seems unlikely the Tigers will even see the third season.Going into this weekend's games, Princeton was looking to snap a dozen-game losing streak.
Despite aggravating his left knee after his sixth match, sophomore Greg Parker fought through two more, placing sixth at the Midlands Tournament in Evanston, Ill., Dec.
They say persistence is a virtue.But according to Webster's, the word "nagging" means "to be a persistent source of annoyance or distraction."Most of the men's basketball team has nagging injuries going into this weekend's games, and the Tigers probably side more with the dictionary in this case than the adage.
A look at the overall record of the men's hockey team is not encouraging for Tiger fans. Currently riding a six-game losing streak, five of which were non-conference affairs, Princeton sits at 5-9-3 ? one of the worst overall records in the Eastern College Athletic Conference.A quick glance at the ECAC standings, however, shows that the Tigers are in third place with a respectable 4-4-2 conference record that gives them 10 points.
The men's and women's swimming teams completed a successful Winter Break as both squads beat Rutgers last Friday and then the men traveled to Hanover, N.H., on Sunday and cruised past Dartmouth, 149-89.In the Tigers' 164-136 win over Rutgers, the women were led by junior Kate Conroy and freshman Lauren Rossi, both of whom won two events ? Conroy in the 100- and 200-meter backstrokes and Rossi in the 100 and 200 breaststroke.
On Jan. 8, senior Melanie Meerschwam became one of 18 players to be named to the U.S. National Team.
For most students, two months may represent the time that remains between now and Spring Break. For the women's hockey team, though, these eight weeks have added meaning.
After scoring only two goals in the first 13 games of the women's ice hockey team's season, forward Gretchen Anderson finally found her scoring touch.
Always within sight but just barely beyond reach, the first win of the season continues to evade the women's basketball team.
The men's hockey team was Sisyphus, rolling the unyielding boulder up the mountain of nationally-ranked opponents.
NEW YORK - As St. Nick prepared for his long journey, the men's basketball team began an arduous trip of its own.
Josh Sims '00 stared as Chris Massey's shot rebounded off the goal, then he streaked forward. The game was in overtime against perennial lacrosse power Johns Hopkins, the score knotted at 6-6.
It may be Christmastime, and this may be the season when wishes come true, but the women's basketball team is not just sitting around imagining its own version of dancing sugar plums ? that tantalizing first win."We've been practicing more intensely and working harder," sophomore forward Lee Culp said.
With 4.3 seconds remaining, Ed Persia took the pass, lost his footing momentarily, then dashed upcourt before firing a desperation shot that boomed off the backboard as time expired.
Fifteen feet. Five yards. A distance shorter than the length of a Butler double. Two VW Beetles. One quarter the distance from the mound to home plate.
In ice hockey, the position of goalie is different from any other. The goalkeeper does not serve penalty time, nor does she change lines with the rest of the team.
