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150 Years ??Men's Lacrosse
November 21, 2014 | Men's Lacrosse
| Men's Lacrosse |
| First Game: Spring 1881 (exact date unknown) vs. New York Lacrosse Club |
| All-Time Record: 655-455-19 |
| 1881 | Princeton plays two games in its first season, against the New York Lacrosse Club and Columbia, before the faculty refused to allow the team permission to leave the campus |
| 1893 | Princeton loses 4-2 to Stevens and discontinues the sport of lacrosse. |
| 1921 | Harland Meistrell leads the effort to reinstitute lacrosse at Princeton, one year after he did so at Rutgers. Today the two long-time rivals play for the Harland Meistrell Cup. |
| 1937 | Princeton defeats, among others, Army, Navy and Johns Hopkins and is voted national champion. Princeton is also voted national champ in 1942, 1951 and 1953. |
| 1957 | Princeton wins the first of its 26 Ivy League championships. |
| 1988 | Bill Tierney becomes Princeton head coach. In his 22 seasons, Princeton goes 238-86 and wins six NCAA championships. |
| 1992 | Princeton wins its first NCAA championship, defeating Syracuse 10-9 on Andy Moe's goal off the face-off of the second overtime. Scott Bacigalupo is voted tournament MVP. |
| 1994 | Princeton wins its second NCAA championship, this time on Kevin Lowe's overtime goal against Virginia. |
| 1998 | Led by the attack unit of Jesse Hubbard, Jon Hess and Chris Massey, Princeton completes a three-year, 43-2 run with its third straight NCAA title. Hubbard, Hess and Massey graduate after combining for 618 career points. |
| 2001 | B.J. Prager's overtime goal on an assist from Ryan Boyle gives Princeton a 10-9 win over Syracuse and its sixth NCAA title. |
| 2010 | Chris Bates becomes Princeton's head coach and leads the Tigers to the championship of the first Ivy League tournament. |
| 2012 | Chad Wiedmaier becomes Princeton's first four-time first-team All-Ivy League selection. |
| 2014 | Tom Schreiber graduates as a four-time first-team All-Ivy selection, a two-time national midfielder of the year and the only midfielder in Ivy League history with at least 100 career goals and 90 career assists. |
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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