Finally, The Answers

TigerBlog felt like a little kid again last night.

Why? Because he wanted to watch a game on TV that started at 10:30 at night. He's usually either asleep by then, or about to be.

When he was a little kid, of course, there were always games on late at night that he'd want to stay up and watch. He'd either try to last until way past his bedtime, often fueled by a nap, and his record in those situations was pretty much perfect - he never made it to the game he wanted to see without fallig asleep.

The game last night was the one between the Atlas and Archers in the Premier Lacrosse League elimination round. The Archers feature Princeton alums Tom Schreiber and Ryan Ambler.

Could he make it past midnight to watch it? Should he take a nap during the day?

Of course, there are big differences between watching the game last night and watching a West Coast game in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The two biggest are 1) there was no school to go to the next day and 2) he could simply watch it this morning when he woke up, though that would mean not checking any messages or social media until he rewatched it.

As an aside, TB sometimes thinks it would be interesting to see how he would have reacted to what are now commonplace words and phrases before they became so. For instance, had you told him when he started at Princeton that one of the best ways to reach his audience would be through a "blog," he would have had no idea what you were saying.

The same applies to this sentence: You don't have to stay up to watch the game because you preset YouTube TV to DVR it, but you will have to avoid text messages and social media from your iPhone.

And with that, here are the trivia questions, and now the answers, from last week:

* Princeton basketball, between the men's and women's programs, has won the Ivy League Player of the Year award 20 times. That list of 20 includes one three-time winner and three two-time winners.

In all, there have been 15 different Princeton basketball players who have won the Ivy League Player of the Year award. How many of those can you name?

It took TigerBlog awhile to figure out the math on that one, but it adds up. There have been 11 players who on its once (so that's 11), and then a three-time winner (that takes it to 14) and the three two-time winners (which makes 20).

So the question requires 15 different names.

Answer -

men (11): Armond Hill, Frank Sowinski, Craig Robinson (twice), Bob Scrabis, Kit Mueller (twice), Sean Jackson, Sydney Johnson, Steve Goodrich, Brian Earl, Ian Hummer, Spencer Weisz

women (4): Addie Micir, Niveen Rasheed (twice), Blake Dietrick, Bella Alarie (three times)

* Princeton had 11 players score a touchdown during the 2019 football season. How many can you name?

Answer -

Graham Adomitis, Jacob Birmelin, Dylan Classi, Collin Eaddy, Trey Gray, Andrew Griffin, Andrei Iosivas, Sam Johnson, Zach Keller, Zach Kelly, Ryan Quigley

* Before the Coronavirus pandemic ended the hockey seasons, both the Princeton men and women won their last games, both in the ECAC playoffs, on overtime goals. Who scored the goals?

Answer -

Women: Mariah Koepple

Men: Mark Paolini

* Princeton has had five players between the men and women score overtime goals in NCAA championship lacrosse games. Name them.

Answer -

Women: Theresa Sherry

Men: Andy Moe, Kevin Lowe, Jesse Hubbard, B.J. Prager

* The two oldest individual outdoor men's track and field records were set  in 1982 and 1983 by the same athlete. Name him (extra credit for the events).

Answer -

Augie Wolf (discus, shot put)

* One Princeton softball player has a career batting average of better than .400. Who is it? (Hint, she graduated in the 1980s).

Answer -

Linda Smolka (.411, not too shabby, and she had a .446 average as a senior)

* Who was the first Princeton men's soccer player to win the Ivy League Player of the Year award?

Answer -

Current head coach Jim Barlow

* Princeton has had 11 field hockey players who had at least 100 career points. Can you name them?

Answer -

Michelle Cesan, Allison Evans, Kirsty Hale, Ilvy Friebe, Amy MacFarlane, Hilary Matson, Ryan McCarthy, Mollie O'Malley, Katie Reinprecht, Clara Roth, Kat Sharkey

* Two Princeton women's volleyball players have reached at least 500 kills in a season. Name them?

Answer -

Rose Kuhn and current head coach Sabrina King, both in 1998

* Who holds the Princeton baseball record for career home runs? Hint - it's not Mike Ford, who hit more last year with the Yankees than he did in his entire Princeton career. Second hint - the home run record holder also holds the record for most career punts by a Princeton football player, which is a relatively fascinating double.

Answer - Matt Evans