150 Years ? Men's Heavyweight Rowing

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Men's Heavyweight Rowing

First Meet: June 13, 1872 at Philadelphia (First Annual National Amateur Regatta)

5 EARC/Ivy League Championships • 3 IRA National Championships

1879	The oldest trophy in collegiate racing, the Childs Cup, is awarded for the first time to the winner of the Princeton-Penn-Columbia regatta. Penn won that day, but Princeton leads the group with 47 victories.
1906	Lake Carnegie is dedicated; three years earlier, a crew alumnus named Howard Russell Butler 1876 persuaded Andrew Carnegie to buid a lake for Princeton rowing.
1921	One of the most famous boats at Princeton, the "Crew of '21" was the JV boat that challenged the varsity eight, won the race and became the varsity. Princeton topped 1920 Olympic champion Navy that year.
1946	Dutch Schoch, who would coach the heavyweights for more than two decades, begins his tenure as head coach. Princeton would go from one win in his first season to seven wins by his third.
1956	Seymour Cromwell '56 becomes the first Princetonian to row at the Olympics. He wins silver as a member of the U.S.A. M2x.
1985	Princeton defeats Brown by 2.5 seconds to win its first IRA national championship. The team is pictured in the photo above.
1991	Curtis Jordan begins his career as head coach of the heavyweight following a successful tenure with the open women. He would win 129 races, the most for any Princeton heavyweight coach.
1995	Princeton wins its first Eastern Sprints championship by nearly four seconds over Brown.
1997	Princeton posts its first undefeated season, going 9-0 and defeating Yale by nearly four seconds for a second Sprints championship in three years.
2004	Chris Ahrens '98 joins Mike Evans '80 as Princeton's lone heavyweight Olympic gold medalists. Twenty years after Evans led the Canadian M8+ to gold in L.A., Ahrens does the same with the M8+ in Athens.
2006	Princeton reaches a No. 1 national ranking and wins its fourth Sprints title. The Tigers fall to California in a thrilling IRA final, but they go to Henley and win the Ladies Challenge Plate.
2014	Princeton posts its best finish at IRAs since 2006 with a fourth-place finish, while its 2V earns a silver medal in the grand final.

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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