Princeton University "Cherokee Advocate", graduated in 1844. Princeton University Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. The institution moved to Newark in 1747, then to the current site nine years later, and renamed Princeton University in 1896. Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. It offers professional degrees through the Woodrow Wilson School
1997 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series 1997 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series The 1997 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series took place at Joseph J. O'Donnell Field in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 10 and 11, 1997. The series matched the regular season champions of each of the league's two divisions. , the winner of the series, claimed their first title and the Ivy League's automatic berth in the 1997 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. It was Harvard's second appearance in the Championship Series, both of which were consecutive, and both of which matched them against Princeton. Princeton defeated Penn, 11–3, on May 7 in a one-game playoff