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PRINCETON’S STAR RUNNING BACK, WHOSE BRAVE BATTLE WITH APLASTIC ANEMIA HAS INSPIRED CAMPUS COMMUNITY, TAKES TIME TO ANSWER THE INK‘S QUESTIONS

Name: Jordan Culbreath ‘10
Age: 21
Major: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Hometown:
Falls Church, VA
Eating club/residential college/affiliation: University Cottage Club

Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional?
Jack Donaghy from 30 Rock

What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in Princeton?
Phat Lady and Cheese Fries

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day?
I visit the doctor, relax, and work on my senior project.

What is your greatest guilty pleasure?
Phat Lady and Cheese Fries

What’s the last student performance you saw?
Our Documentary Theatre performances for my writing seminar

Do you know all the words to Old Nassau?
Most of them

What do you hate most about Princeton?
Attendance at athletic events

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Roger Hughes will have to return the headset. He'll probably get to keep the sunglasses.

Princeton has fired head football coach Roger Hughes, the Associated Press reported Sunday.

Hughes was 47-52 during his ten year tenure at Princeton. The Tigers finished this season 4-6 after beating Dartmouth Saturday.

Princeton went 9-1 in 2006, winning the Ivy League. But Hughes had only two other winning seasons since coming to Princeton in 2000.

Athletic Director Gary Walters said he would meet with Hughes to figure out the now ex-coach’s role as he finishes his contract, according to the statement released by the Princeton Athletic Department.

Stay tuned for the new-coach search. Last we checked, former Steelers coach Bill Cowher, P ‘08 ‘10, was still looking for a job…

(image source: http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/state/new_jersey/20091122_ap_princetonfiresfootballcoachrogerhughes.html)

Culbreath in front, in September

Yesterday, the Times of Trenton published a feature about senior Jordan Culbreath, Princeton’s All-Ivy running back–and it’s worth a read. After he was injured in the second game of the season against Lehigh, Culbreath, Princeton’s first Ivy League rushing champion since 2002, was diagnosed with aplastic anemia and bone marrow failure. I don’t really know anything about football–to be honest, I have only the vaguest inkling of what a rushing champion is–but this story goes beyond sports.

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butlerMuch like its students–many of whom are finished with their totally awesome life-changing (important), lucrative (really important), resume-enhancing (most important) internships at McBainMorganWater & Sachs of America Madoff, Inc.–Old Nassau, it seems, is sort of vegging out the rest of August. You see, nothing crazy or absurd occurred this past week.

But still, there were some gems, including a Princeton alumnus who funneled beers with Stephen Colbert on Monday’s Colbert Report! Ch-ch-check it out!:

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