Princeton Ends Sprint Football Program That Hasn't Won Since 1999
The Princeton University football stadium during a sparsely attended sprint football game between the home team and the University of Pennsylvania, in Princeton, New Jersey, on Nov. 4, 2011.
Photographer: Oliver Morris/Getty ImagesPrinceton University called an end to the school’s varsity lightweight football team, an idiosyncratic but beloved feature of the Tigers’ athletic program. Citing the team’s performance -- it has lost 106 games in a row -- and a high rate of head injuries, university president Chris Eisgruber announced the decision Monday in an e-mail to the team’s alumni.
"The risk of concussion and catastrophic injury is a major concern of ours and the medical staff advising us, and it is directly related to both the team’s inadequate roster size and the fact that too many of our players have much less football experience or athletic training than players from other schools in the league," Eisgruber said.