For the third straight season, the nation can tune in on an autumn Friday night and watch the Princeton football team in an Ivy League showdown. The 100th meeting between local rivals Penn and Princeton has been moved to 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 7, and will be played on Powers Field at Princeton Stadium in front of a live viewing audience on ESPNU. If it's anything like the last two Penn-Princeton games in New Jersey, the nation can expect a classic.
Princeton is 2-0 in ESPNU games, including last season's dramatic 34-31 victory over Cornell. That game featured the breakout of tailback Jordan Culbreath, who rushed for 145 yards and two touchdowns, including one that would be named SportsCenter's "Top Play" of the night. During Princeton's 2006 Ivy League championship season, the Tigers kept Brown out of the end zone in a 17-3 win.
As exciting as those two games were, the last two Penn-Princeton games at Princeton Stadium may top them. In 2004, Penn pulled out a 16-15 victory after two late kicks went the visitors' way, a 27-yard make by Penn's Derek Zoch and a 41-yard miss in the final seconds by Princeton's Derek Javarone. Two seasons later, one of the most amazing wins in Princeton football history occurred when Rob Toresco flipped a fourth-down pitch to Jeff Terrell in double-overtime of a 31-30 victory. That game, along with a winning play that would also earn SportsCenter's "Top Play" honor, can be relived here.
The game, originally scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 8, will now be played one night before, and will have no impact on the rest of the Ivy League schedule.








