Princeton University Athletics
150 Years ? Men's Lightweight Rowing
November 18, 2014 | Men's Rowing - Lightweight
| Men's Lightweight Rowing |
| First Race: May 28, 1920 at Philadelphia (American Henley Regatta) |
| All-Time Record: 378-183 |
| 15 EARC/Ivy League Championships • 8 national championships |
| 1922 | Princeton wins the inaugural Goldthwait Cup, awarded to the winner of the V8 race between Harvard, Yale and Princeton. This is the only annual H-Y-P race in any of the four rowing leagues. |
| 1930 | Under program founder and head coach Gordon G. Sikes '16, Princeton wins its second the prestigious Joseph Wright Challenge Cup, symbolic of Eastern supremacy. Sikes retired a year later. |
| 1948 | Princeton wins its first EARC Championship, and it goes to the Henley Royal Regatta where it wins its first of back-to-back Thames Challenge Cups. |
| 1957 | In the inaugural year of official Ivy League competition, Princeton topped Harvard by one second to win the Ivy/EARC title. Princeton would win its second straight Henley title as well. |
| 1973 | Gary Kilpatrick, who would go on to win a program-best 97 races, makes his debut as head coach. Princeton goes 8-0 and wins the Eastern Sprints/Ivy League championship. |
| 1986 | Princeton wins its first team national championship. |
| 1996 | Under head coach Joe Murtaught, Princeton tops Harvard by .2 of a second to win the program's fifth national championship. |
| 2003 | Princeton upsets both Harvard and Yale to win the Eastern Sprints/Ivy League title; it reaches the Temple Challenge Cup final at Henley, where it loses to a Princeton freshman heavyweight boat. |
| 2009 | Princeton goes undefeated in the final season under head coach Greg Hughes and wins the Sprints, IRA and Temple Challenge Cup Henley titles. |
| 2010 | Under first-year coach Marty Crotty, Princeton defeats Navy by less than one second to win its second straight IRA national championship. |
The 150th anniversary of the first intercollegiate athletic event in Princeton University history will be Nov. 22, 2014, which will be 150 years to the day that Princeton defeated Williams 27-16 in a baseball game. As part of the 150th celebration, Princeton will be commemorating the history of each of its 38 varsity teams, in reverse order of the time they became varsity programs.
Tuesday, June 04
Wednesday, June 22
Monday, June 06
Wednesday, December 01