If someone puts a voodoo doll over a fire, someone else will supposedly feel the heat by virtue of some sort of magical connection.But Penn proved that no magic is required to perform this kind of feat: When it dropped its No.
There was a glimmer of hope at the end of football's disappointing 1999 campaign. Going into the fourth quarter, the team held an 18-0 lead over Dartmouth in the final game of the season.Roger Hughes, then offensive coordinator for the Big Green, extinguished that light, helping Dartmouth erase the deficit and send the Tigers to the bottom of the Ivy League.Now, the same man will try to restore hope and a winning attitude to Princeton's program.
There was a glimmer of hope at the end of football's disappointing 1999 campaign. Going into the fourth quarter, the team held an 18-point lead over Dartmouth in the final game of the season.Roger Hughes, then offensive coordinator for the Big Green, extinguished that light, helping Dartmouth to erase the deficit and send the Tigers to the bottom of the Ivy League.Now, the same man will try to restore hope and the winning attitude of past Princeton teams.
After last year's disappointing second-place Ivy League finish, the men's basketball team and its corps of young talent began the season with high expectations of capturing the conference title ? and an NCAA tournament berth ? for the fourth time in five years.But a bumpy road ? riddled with unforeseen injuries, consistently inconsistent shooting and a disappointing loss at Yale ? doomed Princeton (19-11 overall, 11-3 Ivy League) to finish as the runner-up to archrival Penn for the second consecutive season.
During the course of the regular season, freshmen and sophomores scored the majority of the goals for Princeton's youthful men's lacrosse team.
Men's cross-countryHighlights: Breezed past Dartmouth and Penn to capture Heps title . . . Paul Morrison took first place overall at Heps and eighth at NCAAs. Field hockeyHighlights: Compiled 7-1 Ivy record to tie Brown for title . . . Melanie Meerschwam and Hilary Matson named first-team all-Ivy. Men's soccerHighlights: Tied Yale, 0-0, in regular-season finale to secure first outright crown since 1960 . . . battled into triple overtime before succumbing at Virginia in NCAA first round. Women's volleyballHighlights: Returned to NCAAs after one-year hiatus with Ivy tournament win over Harvard . . . Sabrina King named conference Player of the Year . . . Michelle Buffum named Ivy co-Rookie of the Year. Men's fencingHighlights: Finished 4-0 in Ivy competition, 12-3 overall . . . took fifth place overall at NCAAs . . . Jason Burrell ranked No.
If the men's track team had simply ended its season in early May, few would have questioned that this had been one of the finest squads in Princeton history.
Hilary Maddox's face burned bright red, wet wisps of a blond ponytail clinging to her face as she spoke in a steady voice while water spilled out of her eyes."What was the greatest thing about our team, no one really had . . ." The senior midfielder bent her head.
The women's lightweight crew came out on top again. With a narrow one-second victory over Wisconsin at the Eastern Association of Women's Rowing College Sprints in New Preston, Conn., on May 14, the Tigers successfully defended their 1999 EAWRC Sprints title.
Senior second baseman Jay Mitchell had scored the game's first run. Senior catcher Buster Small had hit his first home run since 1998.
For the first time since 1996, the men's golf team ? led by senior Judd Pritchard ? will participate in the NCAA West Regional at Riverbend Golf Course in Madera, Calif., May 18-20.The field of 27 teams playing at Riverbend, the home course of Fresno State, includes several Pac-10 teams, including champion Arizona State, Arizona, UCLA and Stanford.
They had their heads turned, hanging down, so they may not have seen. But slinking off the field, they must have heard the screams.It was three weeks ago, and the No.
Since 1970, when the sport of men's cross country held its first Heptagonal championships, the Ivy League schools and Navy have battled for a shot at a Triple Crown.
For the men's lacrosse team, the NCAA selection committee finally got it right. After infuriating the squad in 1999, the group that determines the tournament bracket placed the Tigers in a spot they felt they deserved."I think it's great," junior attackman Matt Striebel said.
The women's tennis team has made winning a habit. Now, for the first time since beginning its undefeated Ivy League season, the team will enter competition as an underdog.
After last year's overtime loss to Stanford, the women's rugby team was hoping it could turn its luck in the national championship game around.Upstart Penn State had other ideas.After the Tigers crushed Illinois, 36-7, to earn a spot in the finals, they found themselves up against a determined Nittany Lions squad.
It was a bittersweet ending for the entire softball team, but especially for Sarah Peterman.The lone Tiger senior had just pitched her last game in an orange and black uniform.
Almost a month later, the lightweight men's crew was still up to the task.Poor weather conditions on Lake Carnegie forced the postponement of its original April 6 race against Georgetown.
The women's lacrosse team was hoping for one of the top four seeds and an accompanying first-round bye in the upcoming NCAA tournament.Princeton was not disappointed.After every other team to make the tournament had been named, the Tigers leapt out of their seats, knowing that they had landed the No.
It had done everything it was supposed to do this season, and yet a certain touch of tension permeated the press room where the men's lacrosse team awaited its seeding for the NCAA tournament last night.Relieving fears of a recurrence of the disappointing placement they received last year, the Tigers (10-2) were rewarded for their season's efforts with a No.
