Memorable Game, Momentous Day

Certainly the most memorable (or momentous?) Princeton football game was against Penn my senior year, Nov. 4, 2006, at Princeton Stadium. The match turned out to be a thrilling double-overtime victory made possible by an improvised lateral on a critical fourth and goal. That play ended up on ESPN’s top plays of the weekend; but for me, it is just a personal footnote to the larger event of the day — being introduced to a sophomore I’d later marry.

Editor’s note: John B. Canning ’65 similarly remembers the Yale game in 1962 “not because of any outstanding plays (although Princeton won) but because my blind date for the game was a young lady from Smith College whom I wound up marrying and to whom I’ve now been married for 51 years!”