The Penn women's soccer team finally got its offense going with a 6-0 explosion against Robert Morris, just in time to face the toughest defense it will see all season. On Sunday, the Quakers (7-3-1, 1-2 Ivy) travel to Hanover, N.H., to meet Dartmouth, the only remaining undefeated team in the Ivy League.

Coach Rudy Fuller has had Oct. 15 circled on his calendar for a long time. At noon on that day, his Penn men's soccer team (7-2-1, 3-0 Ivy) will head up to Chase Field in Hanover, N.H., for a showdown against defending Ivy League champion Dartmouth (3-5-3, 1-1-1).

When a celler-dwelling team undertakes a rebuilding effort after firing its old coach, the talk around the program is usually focused on the future, not the present.

Columbia kicker Jon Rocholl was just a freshman when he launched a 47-yard field goal between the posts in a game against Penn last season. Despite his efforts, the Lions were blown out - their eighth loss in a row to the Quakers. But the kicker would continue to have his own success throughout his first season, making 11 of 15 field goals, including 5 of 7 from the 40-to-49-yard range.

This weekend, the Penn men's and women's golf get one last shot before the snow hits, and a victory would help the Quakers get through a cold winter. Penn's men host the Big 5 Invitational tomorrow and Sunday, while the ladies head to Rutgers for the final match of the fall season.

Through the men's locker room of Hutchinson Gym, past the squash courts and down a fire escape, is the path that leads you to the basement.

Tonight, the Princeton high-school football team will be away at Ewing, and the Hun School travels to Blair Academy. But that doesn't mean there will be no football played under the lights in Princeton tonight. Brown (1-3, 0-1 Ivy) at (24) Princeton (4-0, 1-0) In the first Friday night game in Ivy League history, the Tigers put their undefeated record on the line against the defending conference champions.

When the 1998 Winter Olympics were held in Nagano, Japan, they brought with them a curious sport that quickly caught on as a fad in the United States.

The coaching carousel fueled by Fran Dunphy's departure to Temple has finally come to a stop. New Brown coach Craig Robinson filled out his coaching staff by hiring Jesse Agel and former Bears guard Douglas Stewart as assistants. Agel, a 1984 Vermont graduate, was an associate coach for the Catamounts under Tom Brennan for eight years and an assistant for 17 in total.

Every year, the Penn Relays attract over 15,000 athletes and 100,000 fans to Franklin Field for one of the country's greatest amateur athletic events. For Frank Dolson, a longtime Philadelphia sportswriter who passed away last weekend at age 73, there was little better in the world than the Penn Relays.

If you thought the Patriot League was too good to lose more than one game to the Ivy League this weekend, you would have been right - were it not for Tom Methvin. The Princeton defensive end stuffed Colgate quarterback Mike Saraceno just outside the end zone to deny the Raiders the two-point conversion on the game's final play on Saturday as the Ivy League continued its dominance in matchups between the two conferences this year.

Phillies fans may have wanted to miss the baseball team's most recent late-season collapse, but if you live in a college house, it is not like you had a choice. Comcast SportsNet, the premier network for all things Philadelphia sports, is currently not offered to anyone living in a college house at Penn.

It was not soccer. Coach Darren Ambrose called it "survival." Fans said that it was more like watching water polo with feet. No matter how you look at it, it was one wild night for the Penn women's soccer team. Despite playing through a mini-monsoon, the drenched Quakers were all smiles after dominating Robert Morris, 6-0, last night at Rhodes Field.

The similarities are striking: Last year, a 6-2-2 women's soccer team lost 1-0 to Columbia and was unable to recover, winning just one of its final five games. Today, four days after playing some of their worst soccer of the season, the Quakers are looking to rebound from another 1-0 defeat by the Lions and avoid a repeat of last year's failures down the stretch.

Following a nail-biting double-overtime victory against Columbia and on the heels of a No. 3 ranking in the Northeast Division by the NSCAA, the men's soccer team is riding high. It's been four years since the Quakers (7-2-1, 3-0 Ivy) and Scarlet Knights (7-6, 4-4 Big East) last met.

With a win over Dartmouth already under its belt, the Penn football team looks to go 2-0 in Ivy League play when it takes on Columbia. There's a good chance that a sentence like that will appear in the football preview found in Friday's Daily Pennsylvanian.

When Division I-AA Montana State recently upended a mediocre Division I-A Colorado football team, the result was considered a monumental upset. So imagine a sport in which top varsity teams are consistently threatened - and often beaten - by a club-level squad.