Field Hockey

Field Hockey began propitiously in November 1971 with the first contest between Princeton and Yale women on the day of the annual Yale-Princeton football game. Of all the Princeton-Yale athletic contests played that day, women's field hockey provided the only Princeton victory, with an historic 3-2 win over Yale.

For the first five years, the Princeton women never lost to the Yale women . . . nor to many other women either. The season records speak for themselves: 1971, 5-2; 1972, 7-3-1; 1973, 8-3; 1974, undefeated; 1975, undefeated. From 1972 through 1975 Princeton was the Big Three and Ivy League Champion.

During the same short five-year period, the women's athletic program was organizing and fielding fourteen intercollegiate teams and achieving an aggregate winning percentage of .800. The women's field hockey team has contributed greatly to that winning effort.

Merrily Dean Baker

From Alexander Leitch, A Princeton Companion, copyright Princeton University Press (1978).

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