Damani Leech, a 1998 Princeton graduate and three-time first-team All-Ivy defensive back as a football player with the Tigers, has been named president of the Denver Broncos as announced by the team on Thursday. Leech will lead the business operations of the team and Stadium Management Co., which operates Empower Field at Mile High. With […]
By Craig Sachson The play was called double shallow, and it wasn’t meant for him. He was basically a decoy. His job was to get out of the way, and hopefully draw a defender with him. Sometimes life doesn’t go as planned. Sometimes your dream of playing for one of the top Florida universities doesn’t […]
PREVIEW: Yale (5-3, 4-1 Ivy) at Princeton (7-1, 4-1 Ivy) By Craig Sachson For a special group of seniors, Saturday will feel especially meaningful. Senior Day always captures the emotions. Hearing your name over the public address, running the length of Powers Field into the waiting arms of family and teammates, and celebrating one final […]
By Craig Sachson Jeremiah Tyler plays with joy. He plays with love for his teammates, and for a football program that he bonded with before he ever came to campus. He will run the width of Powers Field for his own Senior Day Saturday after watching so many of his brothers do so in the past. […]
By Craig Sachson Head coach Bob Surace has led the Princeton football team for the last 12 years, and he has experienced as many thrills as any leader of this program since the first half of the 20th century. Ivy League championships? Check. Multiple nationally ranked teams? Check. NFL-bound players? Check. The elusive perfect season? […]
By Craig Sachson, PrincetonTigersFootball.com Champions are decided at the finish of the race, not the start. Delan Stallworth learned during his childhood, watching TV on Sunday afternoons. Football? You would think. The son of a Division I college football player and one of Princeton’s standout cornerbacks this century, Stallworth’s Sundays were actually filled with Formula One racing. […]
PREVIEW: #15 Princeton (6-0, 3-0 Ivy) at Cornell (1-5, 0-3) By Craig Sachson Princeton football fans will talk about last week’s 18-16 5OT victory for years. Princeton football players stopped talking about by Sunday night. The culture within the Princeton locker room is all about looking forward, not backward. That’s all the more meaningful this […]
Sam Wright didn’t believe it at first. He refused to. It wasn’t the way this chapter of the story was supposed to end. Rewind a few days back to one of the most memorable games in the history of Princeton Stadium. It was the third of five overtimes, and a Crimson-clad wideout stood in his […]
Week 6 Preview: #16 Harvard (5-0, 2-0 Ivy) at #17 Princeton (5-0, 2-0 Ivy) On April 28, 1877, teams representing both Princeton and Harvard met on the South End Grounds to compete in the new collegiate sport of football. It remains one of the sport’s great rivalries, and there is little this showdown hasn’t seen. […]
Senior Feature: Cole Smith By Craig Sachson, PrincetonTigersFootball.com Cole Smith waited longer than he could have imagined for the opportunity coming this Saturday. He was one of the best players at Christian Academy of Knoxville, a three-time all-state quarterback who set a Tennessee state record with 11,032 career passing yards. He likely understood that he might not […]
