The Tiger mascot started appearing in the 1940s at basketball and football games. In the 1970s and 1980s the Tigress joined the Tiger, first appearing at the 1973 Princeton-Yale football game.

The Princeton Tigers are the athletic teams of Princeton University. The school sponsors 35 [ 1 ] varsity teams in 20 sports . The school has won several NCAA national championships, including one in men's fencing , three in women's lacrosse , six in men's lacrosse , and eight in men's golf .

About the Princeton tiger * The tiger emerged as a symbol of Princeton, ironically, not long after Woodrow Wilson's class, at its graduation in 1879, gave the University a pair of lions to guard the main entrance to Nassau Hall.

Dec 3, 2014 · In 1973 a few years after women were first admitted to the University, a tigress accompanied the well-known male mascot for the first time, distinguished by orange bows on her head and tail.

Jul 25, 2007 · Tigers of all sizes can be found adorning and guarding buildings around the Princeton campus. The tiger has been the University's mascot since the late 1800s. This tiger is one of two guarding the entrance of Princeton's landmark Nassau Hall.

The Princeton campus abounds with tigers of all shapes and sizes. Here are more than a century of samples through photographs.

In 1923, a live tiger who had been captured in India by the father of a football player, Albert F. Howard '25, was brought to Princeton as a mascot; but after several weeks of mounting community anxiety he was given to a zoo.

Aug 19, 2023 · Princeton University’s official mascot has had a profound impact on the university’s identity and branding. The tiger is not just a symbol of athletic teams; it’s a unifying emblem that connects students, faculty, alumni, and the broader community.

Feb 25, 2009 · The Tiger mascot takes a well-deserved break. The Tiger emerged as a symbol of Princeton in the late 1800s, most likely due to the growing use of orange and black as the school's colors. Football players of the early 1880s wearing broad orange and black stripes on their jerseys were dubbed "tigers" by sportswriters of the time, and "tiger" was ...

Jan 21, 2016 · From Princeton’s vault: Why tigers? What: Founded in 1912 by the Class of 1894, the Society of the Claw honored prominent Princeton men with real claws from tigers hunted in the British Raj. When did the tiger first become our feisty emblem? Orange and black team colors (from the House of Orange and Nassau in Holland) preceded it by several years.