Monday Notes: Tigers Jump Into Top 10; Trio Claims Ivy Honors; Eaddy Adds Suburban Transit/GPT Award

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The Princeton football team did more than simply clinch at least a share of the 2018 Ivy League championship Saturday. The Tigers also broke into the Top 10 in the AFCA Coaches Poll, and they grabbed the majority of the Ivy League Player of the Week awards.

OK, maybe they aren't as important as the Ivy League title, but they're fun too.

Princeton is now ranked ninth in the AFCA Coaches Poll, which is the highest Princeton has been ranked in either poll since Division I-AA/FCS level began in 1978. Princeton also moved to #11 in the FCS Stats media poll; both are two spots higher than the previous week.

This is the highest any Ivy League team has been ranked since 1993, when Penn moved to #8 in The Sports Network I-AA poll.

Princeton also earned the Ivy League Co-Offensive (Collin Eaddy), Defensive (Mark Fossati), and Special Teams (Nicolas Ramos) Player of the Week honors.

Eaddy had the sixth-highest single-game rushing total in Princeton history when he rushed for 266 yards and three touchdowns in the 59-43 win over Yale. Eaddy, a guest on the Original Eleven podcast that will be released later Monday, doubled his career rushing touchdown total in one game, and he scored his first two touchdowns on the first two plays from scrimmage. The sophomore tailback also earned the GoPrincetonTigers.com/Suburban Transit Athlete of the Week award.

Fossati picked up his second Defensive Player of the Week award this season after recording two interceptions against Yale. His second touchdown clinched the victory and the Ivy title after Yale rallied to make it a two-possession game. Fossati, who also earned the Defensive Player of the Week honor following the win over Brown, shares the team lead in tackles with Tom Johnson (58).

Ramos earned his second Special Teams Player of the Week award over the last three games, and he did it while breaking Princeton's single-season record for extra points made. He went 8-for-8 at the Yale Bowl and now has 50 extra points on the season, and he added a field goal, his seventh in eight attempts.

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