<p>In addition to being my dad's 50th b-day (or 49th?),
WE HOST PENN IN FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and of course, will win.</p>
<p>who's gonna be there with me?</p>
<p>Two of my classmates now are going to Penn, so I've gotta watch us stomp all over them. I'm kind of confused about Princeton's rivalries...are we rivals with Penn? My football coach who went to Harvard congratulated me on getting in, but he said "Ahh but I"m a Harvard man"...and then there's that bonfire when we beat Yale and Harvard.... who is our main rival?</p>
<p>Rutgers is actually the main rival of Princeton. A little odd, I know, but thats the MAIN one.</p>
<p>hankblalock-- haha that reminds me...I was walking in Georgetown on Friday, wearing my bright orange princeton sweatshirt, and a homeless guy sitting outside the cafe we were going into said, "I'm a harvard man myself," just as I walked past him.
lol</p>
<p>princeton's main rival varies by sport: penn for men's basketball, harvard for crew and swimming, dartmouth for women's lacrosse. princeton does play rutgers, as well as a couple other new jersey schools like monmouth and rider, in a lot of sports, but they're more "local rivals" than true rivals, as i see it.</p>
<p>The biggest game, (at least for Princeton, Yale views Harvard as its main rival), is the Princeton Yale football game. I think that's also homecoming weekend? (Correct me if I'm wrong here). Absolutely awesome chaos.</p>
<p>Princeton's main rival is Penn. There was actually an article posted on CC a few weeks ago written by a Princeton student who declared that he for one was sick and tired of Princeton being left out of the Harvard - Yale rivalry.I remember when I toured Princeton the student tour guide say Penn is their biggest rival, aside from Rutgers, but according to him, its a one way rivalry, with Pton students not taking much notice.</p>
<p>i think i'm gonna try to go to every single home football and basketball game, regardless of who our main rival is. i love college sports :)</p>
<p>At least in football, Princeton does not play Rutgers. Penn considers a win against Princeton the capstone of its season, but Princeton students dont really care; they want to beat Harvard and Yale so they can have a bonfire. Yale was the alumni game this year. Im not sure if it is the same game every year.</p>
<p>I was so bummed that we didn't get to have the bonfire!</p>
<p>Me too!! There was a "I Want a Bonfire" Facebook group, but now its name got changed to "Yuck Fale." I think it's pretty sad -- the Facebook group should live. And besides, I still want a bonfire.</p>
<p>Penn's a toy rival and Yale* is a real rival. We're friends with Brown. Harvard's on a different plane of being. Rutgers isn't so much a rival as an afterthought. I've noticed that we as a student body are generally somewhat paternalistic toward them... which is regrettable, actually, considering the potential for doing beneficial extracurricular stuff together.</p>
<p><em>Don't even get me started on the bonfire. After the Yale game, the Yale band played a gig in the Woody Woo fountain... something our</em> band traditionally does after wins. That was **low*.</p>
<p>And they wrote stuff with chalk all over campus. There was a sheet taped to the pavement with "10 things to do with the bonfire wood."</p>