Princeton University Athletics
150 Years ? Wrestling
November 19, 2014 | Wrestling
| Wrestling |
| First Match: 1905 at Pennsylvania |
| 11 Ivy League Championships • 3 EIWA Team Championships |
| 1911 | Princeton wins its first EIWA team championship (team photo pictured above) |
| 1941 | Princeton and Yale share the EIWA championship. Bob Eberle '41, 128-pound champion, is named the tournament's Most Outstanding Wrestler. |
| 1942 | Warren Taylor '43 becomes Princeton's first All-America. The EIWA champion places fourth nationally at 136 pounds. |
| 1951 | Bradley Glass '53 wins Princeton's only NCAA individual championship in the unlimited weight division. |
| 1956 | Princeton defeats Cornell 14-13 to win its first Ivy League championship. |
| 1972 |
Emil Deliere '72 becomes Princeton's second NCAA finalist (190) after leading Princeton to a third straight Ivy League championship. |
| 1978 | Princeton wins the EIWA championship by 10 points over Syracuse. Steve Grubman and John Sefter both winindividual titles, and Sefter reaches the NCAA final in the unlimited division. |
| 1985 | John Orr '85 becomes Princeton's first two-time NCAA finalist (142) after helping Princeton to the Ivy title. |
| 1986 | Dave Crisanti '86 joins Keith Ely '79 and John Orr '85 as the program's only four-time first-team All-Ivy League honorees. Princeton wins its 11th and most recent Ivy League championship. |
| 2002 | Greg Parker '03 knocks off the 174-pound top seed in his hometown of Albany to become the program's fourth NCAA finalist. |
| 2006 | Former Lehigh assistant Chris Ayres accepts the head coaching position. In nine years, he has built a program that went winless for two seasons to second place in the Ivy League. |
| 2012 | The EIWA Championships return to Jadwin Gym, and Princeton sends three wrestlers to NCAAs for the first time since 2001. |
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.
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