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Princeton University Athletics
Men's Soccer Hosts Penn on Senior Day
November 02, 2006 | Men's Soccer
While Princeton looks for a win on Senior Day to end its 2006 season, Penn still has a chance to win an Ivy League championship. The Quakers will have to forget about several decades of results, not to mention get a little help, to do it.
The history part is this: Princeton hasn't lost to Penn anywhere in men's soccer since 1985 and hasn't lost to the Quakers in Princeton since 1975. The Tigers are 18-0-2 against the Quakers in the last 20 meetings between the teams.
The help part would have to come from first-place Harvard, which is hosting Columbia Saturday simultaneously to the Princeton-Penn game. Penn would win an outright Ivy title with a win and a Harvard loss. The Quakers would share the title with the Crimson with a win and a Harvard tie.
Princeton will honor its five-person senior class Saturday, a class that includes two players who have started every game this season (Zach Schwarz and Jame Wunsch) as well as goalie Justin Oppenheimer, who has been a starter in 10 games this year. Dustin Kahler, who returned to the team in 2006 after a year away, and James Hohnau, who has played in four games this year, complete the team's Class of 2007.
In addition to extending their impressive unbeaten streak against the rival Quakers, the Tigers (6-7-3, 1-4-1 Ivy) hope to end a three-game winless streak as they conclude the season today. Princeton fell at Cornell last Saturday, 2-0, as the Big Red scored late in the first half and again on a penalty kick early in the second half.
Penn's scoreless tie with Brown last weekend left the Quakers (8-4-2, 4-1-1 Ivy) two points behind Harvard after the Crimson beat Dartmouth on Sunday. Those results did eliminate Brown from the league race, making Harvard and Penn the only teams with a chance at a title heading into the final weekend.
Princeton came from behind to defeat Penn last season at Rhodes Field, scoring twice in the final 10 minutes in a 2-1 victory.