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Former Tiger football star signs contract with Indianapolis Colts

Former Tiger football star signs contract with Indianapolis Colts

The Princeton football record book reads like a rundown of former Tiger running back Keith Elias '94's stats.Monday, the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League decided that Elias might still be able to run down into the end zone, signing the Princeton great to a one-year contract.

SPORTS | 02/11/1998

Rutgers dominates early going; errors doom Tigers

Too little, too late.The men's volleyball team controlled the tempo of last night's match against No.

SPORTS | 02/11/1998

Pressley finally rewarded in her last year for women's basketball

With the women's basketball team battling for an Ivy League championship for the first time in three years, Zakiya Pressley is finally beginning to taste the success that she came to know well in high school.As a sophomore at Lakeside High School in Seattle, Pressley helped her team to capture the Washington State Basketball Championship.

SPORTS | 02/11/1998

Men's hoops, Howe Cup seize campus' attention; world focuses on Nagano

You've probably heard by now (after all, it's Thursday, three whole days after it happened) that our men's basketball team cracked the top-10 in both national polls this week.Perhaps you're aware that women's hoops defeated Harvard last weekend to end the Crimson's 32-game win streak.If you're a real Princeton sports enthusiast you might even know that women's squash is vying for ? and has a good chance of winning ? the Howe Cup this weekend.But outside our Princeton athletic bubble is another event, one that is supposed to unify the world, but isn't getting much student attention: the Winter Olympics.

SPORTS | 02/11/1998

Out of the shadows

Given all the recent publicity surrounding the men's basketball team's rise in the polls, it isn't too surprising that a Princeton player is seen in the opening sequence of SportsCenter.The logical choice might be senior center Steve Goodrich.

SPORTS | 02/11/1998

Men's squash rebounds from loss of Cantlin, coasts to easy victories

The men's squash team sat squarely at a crossroads last week. The Tigers had dropped their first match of the season Feb.

SPORTS | 02/10/1998

Former w. hockey coach stars in Olympics

Keeping focus through hours and hours of grueling practice. Pushing your body through fatigue and frustration to perfect every move.

SPORTS | 02/10/1998

Women's fencing remains in hunt for Ivy title with pair of victories

With the absence of junior phenom Caitlin Rich, a new regime has taken over Princeton women's fencing.

SPORTS | 02/10/1998

W. squash captures second ever undefeated Ivy season

With two freshmen and two sophomores among the top nine players on the women's squash team, one may have given the No.

SPORTS | 02/10/1998

Hockey success comes naturally for Tigers' faceoff specialist Apps

So many faceoffs occur in any given men's hockey game that only in rare late-game situations does a single one affect the outcome of the game.But any hockey coach will tell you that over the course of a game, the team that dominates the faceoff circle will usually dominate the game.

SPORTS | 02/10/1998

Wrestling falls to Ivy foes Brown, Harvard, beaten by Drexel, ESU

As the wrestling team trekked through the second weekend of its Ivy League schedule, it hoped to continue improving upon its encouraging but losing performances from the previous weekend.

SPORTS | 02/09/1998

Athlete of the Week

The women's basketball game against league-leading Harvard Saturday was billed not as Princeton versus Harvard but rather as Princeton versus Allison Feaster.

SPORTS | 02/09/1998

W. swimming slays Harvard, bows to Brown

It was a tale of two cities and two Ivy League rivals. And two very different results.Saturday the women's swimming and diving team (8-2 overall, 6-1 Ivy League) exploded into the water to capture a thrilling 180-120 victory over Harvard in Cam-bridge, Mass.

SPORTS | 02/09/1998

Women's hockey earns split, stops three-game skid

You win some, you lose some.This season the women's hockey team has certainly proven this adage to be true, and once again it split a pair of games this weekend.After falling 5-2 to Cornell (12-6-1 overall, 11-4-1 Eastern College Athletic Conference, 3-2-1 Ivy), the Tigers (10-11-1 overall, 7-9-0 ECAC, 3-4-0 Ivy) pulled themselves back together to deliver St.

SPORTS | 02/09/1998

Women's track tops Penn; Penn St., UConn edge men

Both men's and women's track have hit their stride going into the home stretch of the season, a stretch that sees them face traditional rivals in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet and also in the upcoming Heptagonal Championships.The weekend saw seven meet records broken, and although the men fell short of victory, the future appears bright for both squads.The women squared-off against Penn, eventually winning handily by 18 points, 68-50.

SPORTS | 02/09/1998

Men's volleyball withers against No. 8 Penn State

No. 9 Penn State men's volleyball (3-6 overall) has lost only twice in the past 20 regular seasons in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association.Friday, Princeton looked to make it three times.It didn't happen.After a strong first game which Princeton (2-3) won, 15-12, the Tigers proceeded to drop the next three ? 12-15, 8-15, 11-15 ? losing by a score of 3-1.Fatigue and conditioning were a factor in the loss for the Tigers, whose season is still young, coming off a long, hard match against Juniata Thursday night."We're still getting used to playing a lot, and with two big matches in a row, we were beat up," freshman outside Steve Cooper said. Wrong play, wrong timeKey points did not go the Tigers' way, and errors came at the most inopportune times."We didn't play as well as we could've when we needed to," senior opposite Scott Birdwell said.Overall, Princeton played a consistent match, but Penn State had that extra edge that turned the tide in its favor.Essentially in their second season ? Penn State also has a fall season ? the Nittany Lions were on top of their game, finishing the match with a season-best .508 hitting percentage.The first game, though, was all Princeton, which rattled off a string of points after the score had been tied at eight to take a 14-9 lead.

SPORTS | 02/08/1998

Thirolf leads women's basketball to upset of league power Harvard

For 32 consecutive games, the Harvard women's basketball team had been a cut above its Ivy League opponents.

SPORTS | 02/08/1998

Men's hockey inconsistent, splits contests versus Colgate, Cornell

Don't let its record fool you. This men's hockey team is good. But not so good that it can't destroy themselves.In what has been an up-and-down season, this weekend the Tigers went on another rollercoaster ride, quashing Col-gate 4-0 Friday night before dropping a 4-1 decision to Cornell Saturday night.Earlier in the season, Princeton (11-6-3 overall, 5-6-3 Eastern College Athletic Conference) seemed unable to put together a complete game.

SPORTS | 02/08/1998

M. hoops reaches No. 9 after pair of blowout victories

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. ? The juggernaut that is the men's basketball team rolled into Dartmouth and Harvard this weekend.

SPORTS | 02/08/1998

Men's swimming defeats Harvard, Yale, sets two records

Going into this weekend's Harvard-Yale-Princeton Invitational, head coach Rob Orr equated his team's chances of winning to throwing a deck of cards into the wind ? luck would determine who had more aces showing.But for the Tigers, the deck was all aces.With an onslaught of first-place finishes, Princeton (8-0 overall, 8-0 Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League) jumped to a surprisingly large lead on the first day of the two-day meet, en route to convincing victories over both Harvard and Yale.A meet that was supposed to be close turned into a relentless drubbing, as the Tigers beat Harvard (6-2, 5-1), 114-49, and Yale (8-3, 5-3), 141-22."They swam beyond expectations," Orr said.

SPORTS | 02/08/1998

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