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Two teams, five games: Tigers-Bears crucial in Ivy races

Two teams, five games: Tigers-Bears crucial in Ivy races

I've been looking forward to this weekend for quite some time. The season is four weeks old, and the Princeton football team will finally host an Ivy League opponent when the Brown Bears come to Princeton Stadium this weekend.Janina Bowl I figures to be an intriguing matchup for several reasons.

SPORTS | 10/11/2000

Wide open Ivy race means football still in the hunt

The Princeton football team has a winning percentage of .250. Last week, Colgate annihilated the Tigers, 34-6.

SPORTS | 10/11/2000

Men's soccer loses more than a game: Nugent, White hurt in Pirate romp

Mike Nugent lay on the ground, rocking back and forth as he clutched at his knee and then his head.Jason White crashed to the ground, lying still as stunned Tigers stared.During a three minute span late in the first half, the men's soccer team's leading scorer and sophomore goalkeeper were seriously injured.The Tigers (6-4-0 overall, 0-2-0) Ivy League) would lose the game, 4-0.

SPORTS | 10/11/2000

Men's tennis trounces Hokies, takes ECAC crown

Last weekend was one of the best the men's tennis team has seen. Going into the ECAC tournament, there was a lot of uncertainty about how the No.

SPORTS | 10/10/2000

Men's soccer prepares for key mid- season battle with Seton Hall

Princeton and Seton Hall share many similarities coming into tonight's men's soccer game at Lourie-Love Field.

SPORTS | 10/10/2000

Women's cross country falls to top-10 Elis in annual H-Y-Ps

This weekend's Harvard-Yale-Princeton women's cross country meet represented a reversal of roles in Ivy League competition.

SPORTS | 10/10/2000

Women's volleyball seeks revenge for last year's five-game loss to Fordham

Coming off a tough Ivy defeat at the hands of Dartmouth over the weekend, the women's volleyball team will look to bounce back tonight when it hosts Fordham in Dillon Gym at 7:30 pm.The loss dropped the Tigers' overall record to 10-5 on the year, and more importantly to 1-1 in the Ivy League.

SPORTS | 10/10/2000

Field hockey loses pair of one-goal games against national powers from the South

Losing to two of the three best teams in the nation is always tough. Losing to those teams by a total of two goals is tougher.

SPORTS | 10/09/2000

Allison leads women's golf to Rutgers title; men take fifth at Temple Invite

On Saturday night, Princeton students headed to the 'Street' in hordes to test their luck at casino night.

SPORTS | 10/09/2000

Women's volleyball splits pair on first Ivy road trip

For the women's volleyball team, the start of the Ivy League season proceeded as a near-perfect continuation of the preseason trends.

SPORTS | 10/09/2000

Athlete of the Week

The men's soccer team is not out of the woods yet. Not after losing its first two Ivy League games of the season, with games against Brown and Yale still to come.But this past weekend, thanks to junior forward Mike Nugent, the men's soccer team may have gained something as important as any league win ? confidence.With crucial contests against Seton Hall and Ivy rival Brown coming up this week, Princeton scored a huge 1-0 win over Harwick.

SPORTS | 10/09/2000

Men's water polo pays back Navy in four-win weekend

In the animal kingdom, all animals are guided by a carnivorous territorial nature, attacking with haste those who spoil or dare enter their territory.

SPORTS | 10/09/2000

Patriot Shames: Loss to Colgate drops football to 0-3 against Patriot League

The football team's offense executed with near-perfection on two drives against Colgate. The first resulted in no points.

SPORTS | 10/08/2000

Men's soccer showcases tough defense in shutout victory over Hartwick

It was a feeling the men's soccer team hadn't experienced in a long time: an early lead.The pressure off the offense to produce goals.

SPORTS | 10/08/2000

Even without Ortman, Penn runs over sprint football in 29-0 drubbing

The sprint football team had been waiting for the chance to play a Penn squad without Tim Ortman.

SPORTS | 10/08/2000

After loss to Spiders, women's soccer blanks American U.

All season, the women's soccer team has relied on its defense. With six shutouts and only one goal allowed in seven games, Princeton's defenders have looked as though no one could get past them.

SPORTS | 10/08/2000

Women's soccer travels to Richmond's Spider Classic

As the women's soccer team takes the trip south to Richmond, Va., this weekend to compete in the Richmond Spider Classic, it comes upon the midpoint of its season.The Tigers will take on the home team, the Richmond Spiders, in their first game tonight at 8 p.m.

SPORTS | 10/05/2000

Men's soccer needs win over Hartwick to sustain momentum

The dizzying descent stopped with the dull thud of Mike Nugent's cleats colliding with the ball.The junior forward slipped a shot passed Vytas Lenkutis 56 minutes into men's soccer's game against Farleigh Dickinson, 60 seconds after the Knights had tied the score at one.It was not a minute too soon.The 2-1 victory may be what the Tigers needed to stop their spinning season from spiraling out of control.After starting the year with four straight victories, Princeton bungled its way through three losses.Problems that had been hinted at in their early wins roared to the surface.

SPORTS | 10/05/2000

Field hockey takes on UNC, ODU

If history repeats itself this weekend, the field hockey team (5-1 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) which travels to Norfolk, Va., to take on North Carolina and Old Dominion , is in for a challenge.

SPORTS | 10/05/2000

With Ortman out of the picture, sprint football looks to topple Penn

226 yards and four touchdowns.Last year, Penn running back Tim Ortman torched the sprint football team with those numbers, leading the Quakers to a 49-12 rout in Weaver Stadium to close out the season.Ortman's gone ? lost to graduation ? but Penn still poses several problems for the Tigers going into tonight's home opener."They have a real tough defensive line," head coach Keith Wadsworth said.

SPORTS | 10/05/2000

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