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

Teams	2
Format	Best of three series
Finals site	Bill Clarke Field Princeton, New Jersey
Champions	Princeton (1st title)
Winning coach	Tom O'Connell (1st title)
← 1995 Ivy League baseball tournament 1997 →

1996 Ivy League baseball standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Lou Gehrig
Princeton  ^x‍‍‡‍^y	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

	Finals
	Harvard	6	0	—
	Princeton	15	1	—

References

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