HOW WE FEEL
"I'm aware of this rivalry because I was totally a dork in learning everything about Penn before coming my freshman year. Although it might be one–sided because friends at Princeton don't think anything of it."—Dave P. Sawyers, Penn Class of 2014
“I want to say Princeton’s our rival. I feel like the majority of our big sports games come against them. I mean, people wear “Puck Frinceton” shirts around. But honestly, there just hasn’t been any consistency with another school. We have a bit of consistency in our rivalry with them.”
—Matthew Brottman, Penn Class of 2014
“I guess I would say Penn’s rival is Princeton since the UA and Penn Athletics keep trying to push those “Puck Frinceton” shirts on us. I’m not sure if we actually have a strong rivalry with Princeton, or if they want us to think that so we get more of a sense of school spirit. Since I don’t attend a lot of sports games here at Penn, the only display of this rivalry I see is the people on Locust Walk wearing those shirts.”
—Katie Parra, Penn Class of 2014
HOW THEY FEEL
“I have heard about the Penn–Princeton rivalry, but I think it’s pretty one–sided: Only Penn students care about it. At Princeton, I think we joke around and equate Penn with Penn State. Sorry about that.“
—Neelay Patil, Princeton Class of 2014
“I don’t think Princeton students consider Penn to be their rival. However, I’m in the glee club, and whenever we go to Harvard to sing before a football game, there’s always this intense rivalry.”
—Nikhita Prasanna, Princeton Class of 2014
“From my perspective, Princeton’s two main rivals are Harvard and Yale, because when we beat both of them in football in the same year, we get a school–wide bonfire.”
—Mandy Swenson, Princeton Class of 2017
“I don’t have much of a view on the situation, except that at the end of the day we’re all brethren in the Ivy family.”
—Jason Zhi, Princeton Class of 2017
