[citation needed] Its most notable upset was the 1996 defeat of defending NCAA champion UCLA in the tournament's opening round, Carril's final collegiate victory.

[3] During that 29-year span, Pete Carril won thirteen Ivy League championships[3] and received eleven NCAA berths and two NIT bids.

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

[citation needed] 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 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.

[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] The women's golf team was founded as a club sport in 1978, coached by Betty Whelan.

After ten years of being denied varsity status by the university, representatives from the team contacted the ACLU asking for assistance and raising the possibility of a lawsuit under the protections of Title IX of the Civil Rights Act.

[11] Princeton University had an ice hockey team organized already during the 1894–95 season, when the school still went by the name of College of New Jersey.

The players on the 1895 team were Chester Derr, John Brooks, Howard Colby, James Blair, Frederick Allen, Ralph Hoagland and Art Wheeler.

The university's men's lacrosse team has enjoyed significant success since the early 1990s and is widely recognized as a perennial powerhouse in the Division I ranks.

[14] 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 Delaware and Raritan Canal.

[15][page needed] The construction of Lake Carnegie in 1906 enabled the sport to expand and laid the foundation for today's rowing program at Princeton.

[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 Eastern Sprints, IRA (national), and NCAA championships, as well as two international events at Henley Royal Regatta.

[21] Princeton's soccer roots trace to the first de facto college football game held in 1869 v Rutgers University, with rules based on The Football Association)[22][23][24] is considered the first "not official" collegiate soccer match and the birth of the sport in the United States.

[25][26][27] The team is one of the oldest active soccer clubs in the United States, playing their first official match in November 1906.

[9] The program's history also includes NCAA relay titles in 1989 and 1990,[14] and 1992 Olympic gold medalist Nelson Diebel.

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

[36] By 1869, cheers were common at athletic events, including baseball and football home and away games, and at practices.

[38] The Princeton University Band was founded in 1919, and played its first public performance at the Princeton-Maryland football game of October 9, 1920.