1996 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series


The 1996 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series took place at Bill Clarke Field in Princeton, New Jersey on May 11, 1996. The series matched the regular season champions of each of the league's two divisions. Princeton, the winner of the series, claimed their first title and the Ivy League's automatic berth in the 1996 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. The Tigers first defeated Penn, 5–4, on May 9 to win the Gehrig Division. It was Princeton's first appearance in the Championship Series.[2]

1996 Ivy League
baseball tournament
Teams2
FormatBest of three series
Finals site
ChampionsPrinceton (1st title)
Winning coachTom O'Connell (1st title)
1996 Ivy League baseball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Lou Gehrig
Princeton  x‍‍y 13 7   .650 26 21   .553
Penn  ‍‍‍ 13 7   .650 25 17   .595
Cornell  ‍‍‍ 8 12   .400 17 27   .386
Columbia  ‍‍‍ 7 13   .350 13 29   .310
Red Rolfe
Harvard  x‍‍‍ 14 6   .700 23 17   .575
Yale  ‍‍‍ 11 9   .550 24 18   .571
Dartmouth  ‍‍‍ 8 12   .400 12 25   .324
Brown  ‍‍‍ 6 14   .300 12 25   .324
x – Division champion
‡ – Championship Series champion
y – Invited to the NCAA tournament
As of June 30, 1996[1]
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

Harvard also made their first appearance in the Championship Series. It was the first time in the four year old event that Yale did not participate.

Results

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Finals
    
Harvard 6 0
Princeton 15 1

References

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  1. ^ "2018 Baseball Record Book" (PDF). Ivy League. Retrieved June 8, 2018.
  2. ^ 2018 Baseball Record Book (PDF). Ivy League. Retrieved June 9, 2018.