Princeton vs Penn

No other league has seen two teams dominate the way Princeton and Penn have, despite the fact that other teams have closed the gap in recent years. (Penn won the Ivy League title last year, followed by Brown and Princeton.) In 33 of the last 35 seasons, one or both teams have won the regular-season championship. Only six times since the Ivy League's founding in 1956 has a team other than the Tigers or the Quakers won the league championship, implying that practically every time these teams meet, it's for a chance to play in the NCAA tournament. The rivalry wasn’t always as intense as it is today. During the Ivy League’s formative years, Princeton worried more about Columbia and Cornell than Penn.

he Princeton-Penn rivalry began to take hold during the Ivy League’s first decade. Princeton dominated its series with Penn then, winning 15 of 20 games. The Tigers also won five league titles during that span while the Quakers never finished better than second in the standings. Despite the lopsided matchup, the passion already was growing.

Since either the Tigers or the Quakers have won the Ivy title in each of the last ten years, the Princeton-Penn women's matchup has been the more compelling in recent years. During that decade, Princeton won seven championships and had a 129-17 regular-season and postseason record versus Ivy opponents. Penn was the victim of seven of the losses. Every good competition necessitates the presence of an enemy. The men's basketball rivalry between Princeton and Penn is no exception.

The Penn–Princeton football rivalry is an American college football rivalryTemplate:CN between the Penn Quakers and Princeton Tigers. They first contested in 1876 during a match in which Princeton beated Pen 6-0, leading 66 to 43 pn the scoreboard. The largest victory was 95-0 and the longest win streak is 28, both going to Princeton, also leading the current streak.

This rivalry would undoubtedly be better than any other in the league if we simply looked at the last five years. The two teams have finished first and second in the rankings every year for the past five seasons, with Penn winning three times and Princeton winning twice. Penn has a 60-10 conference record, while Princeton has a 58-12 mark; Harvard is third with a 45-25 mark. In three of the five years, the teams finished one game apart, determining the league winner solely on the basis of their head-to-head series. The teams are 6-6 all-time versus each other, with a 5-5 regular-season split and each club winning one Ivy League championship game against the other. Some of the 12 games have already been completed.

WOMEN LACROSSE

There is no Ivy League sports rivalry quite like this one when it comes to dynasties on the national stage. It's practically impossible to overstate how evenly matched Penn coach Karin Corbett and Princeton coach Chris Sailer's powerhouses are. For openers, in four of the last five years, Penn and Princeton have shared the Ivy crown. The last time neither school won the Ivy League was in 2005, while the last time neither team qualified for the NCAA tournament was in 1997. And, as one might think, everything is on the line when these two play one other. The only occasion in the previous 12 seasons when the regular-season head-to-head winner did not win the Ivy title was in 2011.

Penn is 6-4 against Princeton in regular season play over the last ten years, but because lacrosse is one of the few sports with Ivy postseason play, fans are treated to even more of this rivalry. Princeton has qualified for eight of the nine Ivy tournaments, while Penn has qualified for all nine. Six times in those nine years, the teams have met, including three times in the Ivy League championship game. The most recent Ivy championship game, which took place in 2018, was one of the finest of all time: with both teams tied for the lead with three all-time Ivy tournament titles each, Princeton defeated Penn 13-10 in a game that featured an incredible seven ties after the first goal was scored.