There have been 13 movies in the "Halloween" franchise.
TigerBlog saw only one of them, the original, and he saw it in the theater on the day it came out 48 years ago this week. The actual day it was released was Oct. 25, 1978. Why didn't they wait until Halloween to do so?
Like most movies of that genre, TB wasn't a fan. Ah, but apparently others were: the movie was made on a budget of $350,000 and ended up making $70 million at the box office. In all the 13 movies have earned nearly $1 billion.
Of course, "Top Gun Maverick" did that all by itself. That sort of movie is more TB's "speed."
Today, as you know, is Halloween.
For many, it's a day of trick-or-treating, Halloween parties and trying to figure out how Little Susie's parents could let her dress up like a Kardashian.
Unless you're, say, otherwise occupied.
The Princeton football team is one such group. The Tigers will spend their Halloween on the bus to Cornell, where they will take on the Big Red tomorrow, with kickoff at 1.
Cornell started the year 0-4, averaging 16 points per game. Since then, the Big Red have wins over Bucknell and Brown, scoring 30 points in each.
A win would give Cornell its first three-game winning streak since 2016.
As for the Tigers, they are one of four teams at 2-1 in the league, along with Dartmouth, Yale and Penn. While playing the Red, the Tigers will also be rooting for the Green — the Big Green that is, as Dartmouth takes on 3-0 Harvard tomorrow as well.
Here's an interesting fact that begs additional research: Princeton's Ethan Clark has a 55-yard touchdown run (against San Diego) and a 51-yard touchdown reception (against Harvard last week). Who is the last Princeton player to do so?
TB will look into it.
In the meantime, who else will be busy on this Halloween? That would be the 16 Ivy League cross country teams.
Those runners will converge on Van Cortlandt Park today for the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, an event that Princeton hopes will go as well as the one last year did, when both the men and women won.
The women's race heads out on the venerable course at 11 am, with the men to follow at noon.
The men will be looking for a fifth-straight Heps cross country title. Princeton is the highest ranked Ivy team at this point of the season, coming in at No. 19 in Division I, as well as No. 1 in the Mid-Atlantic Region. Harvard is the next-highest Ivy team, at No. 21, with no other Ivy team among the 30 ranked teams.
If you're wondering who are the top five, that would be Iowa State, Oklahoma State, New Mexico, Virginia and Colorado.
The women won their 10th Ivy Heps cross country title, a first since 2015, with last year's victory on the Meadows Course. No Ivy League team is currently in the top 30 of the national rankings, where the top five goes like this: BYU, NC State, Florida, Oregon and Notre Dame.
The Ivy teams are pretty bunched in the regional rankings though. Princeton and Penn are 5-6 in the Mid-Atlantic. The other six are all in the top 14 of the Northeast, with Harvard and Yale at 3-5.
The Heps cross country meet is a one of the best events on the annual Ivy League athletic calendar. It's a colorful party with friends, families, alums of each school, all out on the course or under the team tent.
It's also great competition, especially at the finish, where each individual runner's finish can swing the team finishes, or even which team wins.
The two Heps championships will not be the only Ivy titles of the weekend.
The women's soccer champion (or champions) will be crowned tomorrow on the final day of the regular season. The men's soccer one could be decided. Harvard has already clinched a share of the field hockey title, but Princeton could its own share if Yale beats Harvard tonight and Princeton beats Columbia tomorrow.
As a reminder, the Princeton men's soccer team is home against Dartmouth tomorrow at 4. Should Cornell lose at Harvard in a game that starts tomorrow at 1, then Princeton will have already clinched at least a share of the championship before its game kicks off. If Cornell wins, then a Princeton win would mean at least a share of the championship — with many other scenarios, given that there are still two games to go.
On the women's side, Princeton is at Brown at 1, where a win for the Tigers means an outright championship and host role for the league tournament.
The entire weekend schedule for Princeton Athletics can be found HERE.
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