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Defense Comes Out Strong in Red-White Scrimmage
September 5th, 2006The 2006 sprint football campaign began this past Saturday with the annual Red-White scrimmage and began as most first scrimmages usually do — with the defense dominating. After 40-plus years with the Red, head coach Terry Cullen come to accept that defenses tend to shine early on, while the offense gradually settles in and finds its footing. Read More
W. Soccer Wins Season Opener
September 5th, 2006In a game that was delayed until Sunday because of the aftermath of Hurricane Ernesto, the women’s soccer team came out anxious to get the season started and walked away with a 3-2 victory over Lafayette. “Everyone was bursting at the seams to play the first game,” said interim head coach Gretchen Zigante. Read More
Field Hockey Takes Two on Weekend
September 5th, 2006Bill Clinton was in office. September 11 meant nothing to the American public, and the Red Sox were still deeply cursed. Yes, 1999 wasn’t that long ago, but it was the last time the Cornell women’s field hockey team started its season with back-to-back victories. After a 3-1 victory over Lehigh Friday night, the Red came out Sunday and took down Lafayette, 2-0. Read More
M. Soccer Earns Loss, Draw in Tourney
September 5th, 2006The men’s soccer team — which is looking to prove it can contend for the Ivy League title — is off to yet another slow start. Cornell (0-1-1) was unable to come away with a win in either of its two contests this past weekend at the Hartwick College 50th Anniversary Tournament in Oneonta, N.Y. Read More
W. Soccer Opens Year
September 1st, 2006When the Cornell women’s soccer team opens its season this weekend, the Red will do so with a new coach, nine new players and a new attitude. “We’re all really excited, I think this is going to be a really great season. I think we’re going to surprise a few teams this season. Preseason went really well, and the team is playing awesome,” said senior midfielder Whitney Hughes. Read More
Italian World Cup Victory Undermined by Corruption
September 1st, 2006Mi dispiace, Italia — but you are no stranger to corruption. From the ancient plots against Caesar to the Pazzi conspiracies in Renaissance Florence, Italy has meant misdeeds and malfeasance for centuries. We blissfully recall crooked popes on land-grabbing crusades and fascist dictators hobnobbing with Hitler. Read More
M. Soccer to Open Season With Tourney
September 1st, 2006The men’s soccer team will kick off its 2006 campaign this weekend when it travels to Oneonta, N.Y., to compete in the Hartwick Tournament. The squad — which is coming off a disappointing 3-10-2 (2-5 Ivy) 2005 season — will take on Fairfield today and Hartford the tomorrow. Read More
Field Hockey to Face Patriot League Foes
September 1st, 2006The field hockey team’s patriotism will be put on hold when the final bars of the national anthem fade out tonight at Schoellkopf Field, as Cornell opens its 2006 season playing host to Patriot League rivals Lehigh tonight and Lafayette tomorrow afternoon. Read More
Recruits Look to Bump Volleyball to Next Level
September 1st, 2006The sounds of grunts and squelching shoes inside Newman Arena grow louder and more intense as the days countdown towards the volleyball team’s first outright Ivy League title defense since the mid-1990s. Read More