Category: Princeton Tigers
Princeton Band Harassed by Cadets at Citadel
The University band (PUB) faced physical abuse, harassment and taunting on Saturday while accompanying the football team to its away game against The Citadel, a military college in Charleston, S.C.
Following the game, Citadel commanding officers and… more »
Opinion: If Princeton Fans Want a Bonfire, Show Up at Games
Over the last 12 months, I have fielded one question with surprising regularity: “Are we going to get another bonfire this year?”And my answer is often as slick as head coach Roger Hughes’.
Hughes will tell you the Ivy League is filled with parity: a… more »
The Citadel Wakes up in Time to Beat Princeton
Citadel football coach Kevin Higgins expected to have to make adjustments Saturday against Ivy League foe Princeton.
But with his Bulldogs down by 10 points after as sleepy a half as they've played under the fourth-year coach, it wasn't game plans or… more »
The Citadel's Higgins: Ivy foe 'Like us'
The Citadel has never played an Ivy League team in football. Princeton has never played a Southern Conference school in football.
So Princeton's visit to Johnson Hagood Stadium on Saturday to face the 22nd-ranked Bulldogs represents something of a cl… more »
Furman Takes on Big Task against Delaware
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- When Furman coach Bobby Lamb says his Paladins have a big task in front of them Saturday against Delaware, he means it literally.
Lamb noted two things about the Blue Hens -- they are one of the biggest teams he has ever seen and th… more »
Palo Alto Players Will Help Kick off Ivy League Season
Ivy League football should have a few more fans from the local area this season as teams open play on Saturday. It's not just Palo Alto grad Nathan Ford's league any more.
Ford remains the top local athlete in the Division I non-scholarship conferenc… more »
Princeton Football Preview
PRINCETON TOWNSHIP -- Running the option is so high-re ward for a football team, but, inevitably, a play doesn't work, and the high-risk part falls smack in the face of the quarterback.
Which, says Princeton senior quarterback Brian Anderson after he… more »
Opinion: Lengthening Ivy Schedule Would Boost Columbia Football
Are you ready for some football?
I know I am. It is always a long, almost painful wait before Ivy League football season starts. And while the pros and D-I college ball are acceptable substitutes for the time being, there’s nothing like cheering for… more »
The Ivy League: A Place Where it's Still All About the Game, Not the Money
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- College football is a multibillion-dollar business. Television networks pay the Bowl Championship Series conferences millions of dollars to broadcast their games on an annual basis. Record attendance figures are being set every year… more »
Princeton's Keasey Has Ridden the Waives of the NFL
Oft-discarded, he's enjoying his chance to be 49ers' fullback.
If Zak Keasey beats out seven-year veteran Moran Norris for a roster spot, the 49ers' fullback position will be in the hands of a man who didn't play on offense in college.
That was at… more »
Princeton Football Anxious to Prove Poll is Wrong
Pre-season projection has Tigers fifth in Ivies.
While the pre-season Ivy League football poll means little to Princeton University, its release carries significance.
It means that the start of the season is that much closer.
Princeton’s player… more »
Unheralded Princeton Hopes to Surprise in Tough Ivy
As Princeton football tries to rebound this season, its choice of three captains says a lot about the team.
It's not so much the Tigers have a trio leading the way for only the second time in the program's 140-year history. It's the actual choices.… more »
Media Poll Tabs Cornell for 6th-Place Ivy Finish
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Despite returning the largest senior class in the Ivy League, the Cornell football team was picked to finish sixth in the league's preseason media poll, which was released Tuesday morning at the annual media day festivities at Yale Go… more »
Strong Ties Bind the Garrett Family... To Princeton
The Sporting News details the link between the Garrett family, the NFL's Cowboys, and Princeton.
It goes like this: Jim, Jane, Jennifer, Janine, Jill, John, Jason, Judd. Those are the eight Garrett children, in order, oldest to youngest. There will b… more »
Princeton's Keasey Delivering Big Hits out of 49ers' Backfield
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Not too long ago, Zak Keasey was just another unemployed linebacker who hadn't quite finished his college degree. Only his dirty-blond dreadlocks distinguished him from thousands of frustrated NFL hopefuls just like him.
After t… more »