Princeton University

• Location: Princeton, NJ
• Nickname: Tigers
• Conference: Ivy League 1993-present; Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League 1930?-1992
• Ballpark: Clarke Field 1961-present

College World Series Appearances: 1 1951

The most famous major league players who went to Princeton University are probably Moe Berg and George Sisler's son Dave Sisler. Val Picinich also attended for a year. Commissioner Bowie Kuhn graduated from Princeton in 1947.

One source says that baseball at Princeton began in 1858 when freshmen formed The Baseball Club of the Class of 1862 of Nassau Hall. Source: History Boileryard Clarke was the first full time head coach at Princeton and the school's home field is named for him.

People who went here

• Dan Arendas, minor league outfielder
• Danny Barnes, pitcher
• Moe Berg, catcher
• Dan Bickham, pitcher
• Matt Bowman, pitcher
• Charlie Caldwell, pitcher
• Mike Chernoff, executive
• Leonard Coleman, executive
• Bill Cooney, pitcher/outfielder
• Byrd Douglas, college coach
• Nelson Doubleday, owner
• Jack Dunn III, minor league player and owner
• John Easton, pinch hitter
• Jonathan Erlichman, coach
• Michael Fagan, minor league pitcher
• Pat Flaherty, minor league pitcher
• Mike Ford, infielder
• Hank Garrity, college coach
• Noel Gonzales-Luna, scout
• Dick Gordon, writer
• Hy Gunning, infielder
• David Hale, pitcher
• Greg Hamilton, canadian national team manager
• Mike Hazen, minor league outfielder
• Arthur Hillebrand, minor league player
• Homer Hillebrand, pitcher/infielder
• Duke Kelleher, catcher
• Bowie Kuhn, commissioner
• Tim Lahey, minor league pitcher
• King Lear, pitcher
• Mark Leavitt, scout
• Leonidas Lee, outfielder
• James Lemon, owner
• Michael Lewis, author
• Larry Lucchino, owner
• Waddy Macphee, infielder
• Tom McNamara, pinch hitter
• Dutch Meier, outfielder
• Jack Murphy, minor league catcher
• John Ryan Murphy, catcher
• Matt Noone, college coach
• Ross Ohlendorf, pitcher
• Wally Phillips, minor league pitcher
• Val Picinich, catcher
• James Potter, owner
• Ted Reed, infielder
• Roger Salmon, pitcher
• Mark Shapiro, executive
• Dave Sisler, pitcher
• Fred Smith, college coach
• Keelan Smithers, minor league pitcher
• Mike Snyder, scout
• Mark Softy, minor league pitcher
• Sonia Sotomayor, judge, fan
• Chris Staehely, minor league pitcher
• Billy Steinwender, minor league player
• Dutch Sterrett, outfielder
• Erik Stiller, minor league pitcher
• Drew Stratton, minor league outfielder
• Roy Talcott, pitcher
• Bob Tufts, pitcher
• Bobby Vaughn, infielder
• Will Venable, outfielder
• Woody Wagenhorst, infielder
• Steve White, pitcher
• Fred Winchell, pitcher
• Chris Young, pitcher

Coaches

• Boileryard Clarke, 1900-1902, 1910-1917, 1919-1927, and 1936-1944
• Arthur "Doc" Hillebrand, 1903-1905
• Wallace Cosgrove, 1906, 1909
• Don Doyle, 1907
• Arthur "Dutch" Meier, 1908
• Fred Dawson (college), 1918
• Byrd Douglas, 1928-1930
• Harry Hooper, 1931-1932
• Jack Jefferies, 1933-1935
• Charlie Caldwell, 1945-1946
• Matt Davidson (college), 1947-1948
• Emerson Dickman, 1949-1951
• Eddie Donovan, 1952-1975
• Len Rivers, 1976-1980
• Dick Hartnett, 1981
• Tom O'Connell, 1982-1997
• Scott Bradley, 1998-2026

Assistant Coaches

• Dean Ehehalt, 1990
• Mark Leavitt
• Carl Lundgren, 1912-1913
• Don Maines, 1989
• Sean McDermott
• Joe McGinnity, 1906
• Chip Plante

Year-by-Year Record

Year	Overall Record	Conference Record	Notes
1864	7-4
1865	3-3
1866	4-0
1867	5-2
1868	4-4
1869	2-2
1870	5-3
1871	5-0
1872	2-2
1873	8-2
1874	9-10
1875	7-8
1876	8-12
1877	9-12
1878	5-11
1879	8-8-2
1880	16-5
1881	11-14
1882	13-11
1883	16-9
1884	6-14-1
1885	14-11-1
1886	14-10
1887	7-8-2
1888	7-16-1
1889	11-10-1
1890	11-7-1
1891	15-6
1892	14-8
1893	16-11
1894	16-10
1895	21-6
1896	23-9
1897	25-5
1898	17-7
1899	18-9
1900	20-3
1901	20-2
1902	21-6
1903	15-6
1904	17-8
1905	24-8
1906	20-7
1907	22-9
1908	21-8
1909	18-10
1910	20-7-3
1911	18-8-2
1912	21-7-1
1913	15-11-1
1914	20-11
1915	18-14
1916	14-9
1917	0-3
1918	2-4
1919	9-10
1920	13-9
1921	17-9
1922	14-13
1923	21-4
1924	19-4
1925	15-8
1926	17-11
1927	11-14
1928	9-11
1929	12-14
1930	10-220-1	2-8
1931	10-17-1	3-5
1932	11-13	3-6
1933	9-19	1-11
1934	9-15-2	3-8
1935	11-15	5-7
1936	10-15-1	5-7
1937	15-14-1	4-8
1938	14-11	7-5
1939	9-16	5-7
1940	10-15-1	6-6
1941	15-11	9-3
1942	14-6	11-1
1943	8-8	2-6
1944	9-7	4-4
1945	9-8	5-3
1946	9-14	3-7
1947	10-12	7-5
1948	9-15	3-6
1949	12-7-1	6-3
1950	14-8	7-2
1951	20-6	7-2	CWS District Tournaments / CWS
1952	11-11	4-4
1953	14-7-1	8-2-1
1954	15-8	6-2
1955	14-8	5-4
1956	11-9-1	7-3
1957	12-10-1	2-6-1
1958	8-12-1	3-5
1959	11-10	4-4
1960	13-11	4-5
1961	11-11-1	5-4
1962	8-18-1	2-7
1963	13-11	5-4
1964	8-15-1	2-6-1
1965	21-8	6-3	CWS District Tournaments
1966	13-15-1	3-6
1967	10-12	5-2
1968	11-18	2-7
1969	14-7-1	4-5
1970	20-8	10-4
1971	22-7-1	8-5-1
1972	18-11-1	8-6
1973	14-17	6-7
1974	19-11-1	10-5
1975	11-18-1	5-8-1
1976	22-17-1	10-4
1977	17-15	4-9
1978	11-15	6-8
1979	8-22	6-8
1980	16-13	5-9
1981	13-21-1	5-9
1982	12-17	7-9
1983	17-20-2	7-10-1
1984	19-19-2	9-9
1985	29-12	16-3	CWS Regionals
1986	17-21	8-10
1987	17-24-1	6-11-1
1988	21-17	9-9
1989	26-14-1	10-8
1990	23-18	11-7
1991	24-22	14-4	CWS Regionals
1992	20-14	10-8
1993	16-25	10-10
1994	21-19	10-10
1995	15-26	8-12
1996	26-21	13-7	Ivy / CWS Regionals
1997	20-25	10-10	Ivy
1998	25-14	13-7	Ivy
1999	25-20	15-5	Ivy
2000	24-20	13-7	Ivy / CWS Regionals
2001	23-25	14-6	Ivy / CWS Regionals
2002	21-23	13-7	Ivy
2003	27-23	15-5	Ivy / CWS Regionals
2004	28-20	12-8	Ivy / CWS Regionals
2005	17-24	10-10
2006	18-26-1	11-9	Ivy / CWS Regionals
2007	15-24	11-9
2008	20-22	11-9
2009	18-19	10-10
2010	12-30	6-14
2011	23-24	15-5	Ivy
2012	20-19	13-7
2013	14-28	11-9
2014	14-26	8-12
2015	7-32	3-13
2016	24-21	13-7	Ivy / CWS Regionals
2017	12-28-1	7-13
2018	10-27	7-14
2019	12-24	6-10
2020	0-7	0-0
2021	Season cancelled
2022	7-33	3-18
2023	24-23	13-8	Ivy
2024	18-26	12-9	Ivy
2025	12-31	8-13

Further Reading

• Michael Clair: "Why Princeton has a geophysicist in its dugout", mlb.com, April 16, 2024. [1]