Princeton Tigers

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Princeton Tigers
Denunzio Pool
Lacrosse stadiumClass of 1952 Stadium
Other venuesShea Rowing Center
MascotThe Tiger
NicknameTigers
Fight songPrinceton Cannon Song
ColorsBlack and orange[2]
   
Websitewww.goprincetontigers.com

The Princeton Tigers are the

NCAA Division I Championship in field hockey
.

Teams

  • Men's Sports:[1] | Baseball | Basketball | Crew – Heavyweight | Crew – Lightweight | Cross Country | Fencing | Football | Golf | Hockey | Lacrosse | Rugby (club only) | Soccer | Squash | Swimming & Diving | Tennis | Track & Field | Volleyball | Water Polo | Wrestling
  • Women's Sports: | Basketball | Crew – Lightweight | Crew – Open | Cross Country | Fencing | Field Hockey | Golf | Hockey | Lacrosse | Rugby | Soccer | Softball | Squash | Swimming & Diving | Tennis | Track & Field | Volleyball | Water Polo

Basketball

Some of the banners highlighting the achievements of the men's and women's basketball teams, as seen below the rafters of their home Jadwin Gymnasium

Men's basketball

Main article: Princeton Tigers men's basketball

Princeton's

UCLA in the tournament's opening round, Carril's final collegiate victory. In 1989, the team almost became the only #16 seed to win, losing to Georgetown 50–49.[3] During that 29-year span, Pete Carril won thirteen Ivy League championships[3] and received eleven NCAA berths and two NIT bids. Princeton placed third in the 1965 NCAA Tournament and won the NIT championship in 1975.[citation needed] The deliberate "Princeton offense" is a legacy of his coaching career.[3]

From 1992 to 2001, a nine-year span, the men's basketball team entered the NCAA tournament four times. Notably, the Ivy League has never had an

at-large entry in the NCAA tournament. For the last half-century, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania have traditionally battled for men's basketball dominance in the Ivy League; Princeton had its first losing season in 50 years of Ivy League basketball in 2005. Princeton tied the record for fewest points in a Division I game since the 3-point line started in 1986–87 when they scored 21 points in a loss against Monmouth University on December 14, 2005.[citation needed
]

The 1924–25 team was retroactively named the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and the Premo-Porretta Power Poll.[4]

Women's basketball

Main article: Princeton Tigers women's basketball

Princeton's varsity women's basketball program is the strongest in the Ivy League, carrying on the tradition of the men's championship basketball program.[

2015 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament.[5]

Football

Princeton vs. Lehigh, September 2007
Main article: Princeton Tigers football

The football team competes in the Football Championship Subdivision of NCAA Division I with the rest of the Ivy League.[6] As of 2021, Princeton claims 28 national football championships, which would make it the most of any school, although the NCAA only recognizes 15 of the wins.[7][8] Twenty-one former players have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.[citation needed]

The first

Rutgers and Columbia University in 1870 and a third notable game took place between Tufts University and Harvard University in 1875. The popularity of intercollegiate competition in football would spread throughout the country shortly thereafter.[citation needed
]

Princeton's football helmets are also the basis for Michigan Wolverines football team's famed winged helmets, as introduced by Fritz Crisler, the coach at Princeton before he was hired as the coach of the University of Michigan.[citation needed]

Sprint

In addition to the varsity Tigers, Princeton, like a number of other Ivy League schools, also fielded a sprint football squad for players 172 pounds and lighter from 1934 to 2015. The lightweight Tigers won at least a share of the league title eight times, five of those being from between 1937 and 1942. Their last championship, split with the Army Cadets, came in 1989. The Tigers sprint squad collapsed in 1999, which began a losing streak that spanned parts of 17 seasons and 106 games (a collegiate football record), including at least four forfeits; by the end of the 2015 season, Princeton's athletics department determined that the addition of several schools whose sole football team was a sprint squad (and thus were teams that could get all of the best players at their respective schools) and the loss of most of the Ivy League schools, along with the inability of Princeton to recruit more and better players for the team without compromising its other athletic programs or its academic standards, meant that the team would likely be hopelessly outmatched and that this would pose a safety hazard for the players they could recruit. This conclusion led Princeton to drop sprint football in April 2016.[citation needed]

Golf

Men's golf

The men's golf team have won 12

national championships,[citation needed] and they have won the Ivy League title 26 times.[9] They have had seven NCAA individual champions: Louis Bayard, Jr. (1987), Percy Pyne (1899), Frank Reinhart (1903), Albert Seckel (1909), Simpson Dean (1921) and George Dunlap (1930 and 1931).[citation needed
]

Women's golf

The women's golf team was founded as a club sport in 1978, coached by Betty Whelan. A group called "Friends of Women's Golf" began fundraising immediately, and the group began lobbying for inclusion as a varsity sport. After ten years of being denied varsity status by the university, representatives from the team contacted the

better source needed
]

After becoming a varsity team, women's golf too the Northeast championships in 1995, and Mary Moan won the first Ivy League individual championship in 1997. The team won its first Ivy League title in 1999.[11]

Ice hockey

Men's ice hockey

Main article: Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey

Women's ice hockey

Main article: Princeton Tigers women's ice hockey

Lacrosse

Men's lacrosse

Main article: Princeton Tigers men's lacrosse

The university's men's

national titles.[12]

Women's lacrosse

Main article: Princeton Tigers women's lacrosse

The Princeton Tigers women's lacrosse team has won 3 NCAA championships.[12]

Rowing

The varsity lightweight men celebrate winning the Temple Cup at Henley Royal Regatta, July 2009.

Rowing was introduced to Princeton in 1870 by a handful of undergraduates who bought two old boats with their own funds and formed an impromptu "navy" on the

Lake Carnegie in 1906 enabled the sport to expand and laid the foundation for today's rowing program at Princeton. More recently, an $8 million upgrade and expansion of the existing boathouse in 2000 formed Shea Rowing Center, one of the finest rowing facilities in the country.[citation needed
]

With 150 athletes, 60 rowing shells, and 12 coaches, trainers, and boat riggers, crew is the largest varsity sport at Princeton, and one of the most successful. In recent years, from 2000 through 2010, Princeton varsity crews (both men's and women's) won a total of 14

NCAA championships, as well as two international events at Henley Royal Regatta.[citation needed
]

The Princeton boathouse is often a summer base for U.S. national teams in training, and many Princeton rowers and coaches have gone on to compete at the World Rowing Championships and the Olympics.[citation needed]

Rugby

Main article: Princeton Rugby

Men's rugby

The men's rugby team was Ivy League champions in 2004, 1979, 1977, 1973, 1971 and 1969.[14]

Women's rugby

The women's rugby team was national champions in 1995 and 1996. Princeton women advanced to the Final Four in 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004 and 2005. 35 Princeton women have been named All-Americans.[14] The team will become Princeton's 19th varsity program for women starting in the 2022–23 academic year.[15]

Soccer

Men's soccer

Main article: Princeton Tigers men's soccer

From 1911 to 1958, Princeton won seven national championships.[citation needed]

Softball

Princeton's softball team appeared in the Women's College World Series in 1995 and 1996.[16]

Squash

Men's squash

Main article: Princeton Tigers men's squash

The men have won 18 Ivy League championships.[9] They are a four-time winner of the Squash Sloane Award for Team Sportsmanship.[17]

Swimming and Diving

Men's swimming and diving

Main article:
Princeton Tiger's Men's Swimming and Diving

The men have a long history of success in the Ivy League, winning the Ivy League title 30 times.[9] The program's history also includes NCAA relay titles in 1989 and 1990,[12] and 1992 Olympic gold medalist Nelson Diebel.[citation needed]

Tennis

Pablo Eisenberg, who went on to become a professional tennis player at Wimbledon and a gold medal winner in the Maccabiah Games in Israel, as well as a scholar and social justice advocate, played tennis for Princeton in 1952, 1953, and 1954.[18][19]

Track and field

Women's track and field

Princeton's women's track & field team experienced success under coach Peter Farrell, winning a combined 18 Ivy League titles for its outdoor and indoor team.[9] Farrell was the one who founded the women's track and field team in 1977 and stayed their head coach until 2016 when he retired.[citation needed]

Volleyball

Men's volleyball

The men's volleyball program achieved varsity status in 1997 – though it had competed for two decades as a club sport before then – and competes in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association.[20]

The Tigers have the honor of being one of only two teams since the formation of the EIVA in 1988 to win the EIVA championship and advance to the

Rutgers-Newark; as a result, they won the 1998 EIVA championship and gained a spot in the NCAA tournament.[citation needed
]

The Tigers have had three players earn All-American honors – Marin Gjaja '91, Derek Devens '98 and Cody Kessel '14.[citation needed]

Wrestling

See also: Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association

The Princeton Tiger

Wrestling team was started in 1905. The Princeton wrestling team competes in Dillon Gym.[citation needed
]

EIWA Championships (1969, 1979, 1981, 1987 and 2012), as well as both the 1975 and 1981 NCAA Wrestling Championships. The current head coach is Chris Ayres.[21]

Princeton has two national champions to its credit: Bradley Glass in 1951 and Pat Glory in 2023.

Championships

NCAA team championships

Princeton has 24 NCAA team national championships.[22]

  • Men's (19)
    • Golf
      † (12): 1914, 1916, 1919, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1937, 1940
    • Lacrosse
      (6): 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001
    • Fencing (1): 1964
  • Women's (4)
    • Field Hockey
      (1): 2012
    • Lacrosse
      (3): 1994, 2002, 2003
  • Co-ed (1)

† The NCAA started sponsoring the intercollegiate golf championship in 1939, but it retained the titles from the 41 championships previously conferred by the National Intercollegiate Golf Association in its records.

Facilities

The stadium is

Lake Carnegie. The Rugby Team plays at Rickerson Field on West Windsor Fields.[23]

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Logo & Brand Assets | Princeton University Office of Communications". Retrieved September 25, 2018.
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  10. ^ "Women's Golf at Princeton Records 1979–2011". Princeton University Library Finding Aids. Princeton University Libraries. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
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  14. ^ a b "History". Princeton University Rugby Football Club. Princeton University. Retrieved August 3, 2021.
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  17. ^ "Princeton Wins 2017 Men's College Squash Sloane Award for Team Sportsmanship". College Squash Association. Retrieved August 3, 2021.
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  19. ^ "Princeton awards five honorary degrees".
  20. ^ "Men's Volleyball Facts & Figures". Princeton University Athletics. Princeton University. January 28, 2014. Retrieved August 3, 2021.
  21. ^ "Princeton Wrestling Facilities". Princeton University Athletics. Princeton University. August 20, 2012. Retrieved January 1, 2014.
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  23. ^ "Facilities". Princeton Tigers. Retrieved March 14, 2017.

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