Category: Princeton Tigers
Well-Schooled Pair of FCS Coaches
They both are coaching a game of X’s and O’s at institutions where the emphasis is on A’s and B’s.
Welcome to the non-scholarship world of Nashua’s Eddy Morrissey and Merrimack’s Walt Housman. Morrissey was recently named as the offensive line coach… more »
Princeton Taps Surace as New Head Coach
He knows Princeton University football, he knows the Ivy League and over the years he has proven that he knows football.
And it’s those attributes that have led to Bob Surace being named the new head coach of the Tigers.
Surace, a Jersey native an… more »
Princeton, Gilmore Talked About Post
WORCESTER — When Princeton was searching for a new football coach, it thought of Holy Cross’ Tom Gilmore.
Princeton expressed interest in Gilmore after it fired Roger Hughes at the end of the season and Gilmore said he had some discussions with Prin… more »
Bob Surace '90 Named New Head Coach Of Princeton
Bob Surace ’90, a key member of the 1989 Ivy League champion Princeton football team, has been named the Charles W. Caldwell Jr. ’25 Head Coach of Football at Princeton University, it was announced Dec. 23 by Princeton Director of Athletics Gary Walters… more »
Head Coach Relieved Of Duties At Princeton
Roger Hughes has been relieved of his duties as the Charles W. Caldwell Jr. head coach of football at Princeton, Director of Athletics Gary Walters announced today. A national search for a new successor will be held immediately.
Hughes went 47-52 in… more »
Patriot Games: Scholarships Pose Threat to the Ivy Way
Imagine, for a second, that instead of traveling to Holy Cross tomorrow to watch Harvard take on the Crusaders, you were one of over 30,000 fans packing into a maximum-capacity Harvard Stadium as the Crimson kicked off its season against a major-confere… more »
Harvard Reduces Sports Travel as Ivys Cut Athletics to ‘Core’
Dartmouth College, where former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson was an All Ivy football player in the 1960s, has scrapped a $15 million stadium renovation project as its sports endowment plunged as much as 18 percent.
Harvard University, the wea… more »
New Ivy League Commissioner Not Rushing into Football Playoff Debate
After about the third time I rephrased the same question, Robin Harris couldn’t mistake the direction of the conversation Friday.
Harris, the new executive director/commissioner of the Ivy League, who replaced Jeffrey Orleans on July 1, gently rebuke… more »
Can the Ivy League Get Its Game Back?
Lackluster teams prompt calls for change; a new chief’s listening tour.
The schools of the Ivy League are among the nation’s finest and richest, with billions in endowments under their command. From law to business to medicine, they’re No. 1 in pract… more »
Bowling Green Finalizes FCS-Heavy Coaching Staff
Bowling Green State University head football coach Dave Clawson (Richmond) has announced the hiring of Mark Carney (Fordham, Richmond), Mike Elko (Hofstra, Richmond, Fordham, Penn, Stony Brook) and Adam Scheier (Lehigh, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth) t… more »
At Last, a Big Game to Rile Delaware
Proximity, history could charge UD-DSU meetings.
The University of Delaware and Delaware State University have some catching up to do.
Football rivalries don't form overnight. But UD and DSU already have many of the ingredients to make this one sp… more »
Former FCS in the 2009 Super Bowl
UNI's Kurt Warner, TSU's Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, and Hofstra's Willie Colon expected to start.
Former FCS players on the NFL's Super Bowl teams this Sunday:
Pittsburgh Steelers
Head Coach Mike Tomlin, William & Mary
Assistant Coach Am… more »
Third-String Rummy
The New Yorker has reservations about the inclusion of a third-string football player - and one season sprint football player - at the Ivy league dinner earlier this month.
By last Thursday night, with the changing of the guard in Washington complete… more »
Maryland's Crab Bowl Features Future FCS Football Players
Wearing a uniform similar to the one he will don next season for the University of Maryland, running back Caleb Porzel stood near midfield after today's inaugural Maryland Crab Bowl all-star game and began to reel off the names of several of his future… more »
Yale Gets One Step Closer
Fortunately for the football team, style points have no effect on a game’s outcome.
It may have been ugly, but for the second consecutive week the Bulldogs defeated an Ivy League foe in a defensive struggle. After knocking off first-place Brown last… more »