Back to the Rutgers Scarlet Knights Newsfeed

No. 6 Men’s Lacrosse Edges No. 13 Princeton, 14-13, in OT Thriller

On a cold, blustery March afternoon in front of nearly 3,000 boisterous fans at SHI Stadium in Piscataway, the Rutgers Scarlet Knights and Princeton Tigers squared off in the 100th meeting in a series that dates back to 1922 and has only been postponed twice - during WW2 and in 2020 due to Covid. The winner would secure the Tots Meistrell Cup, named after Hall of Famer Harland (Tots) Meistrell, who helped restart the lacrosse teams at both schools in the 1920s. Princeton had disbanded its team in 1894 before its resumption in 1920, while Rutgers discontinued its program in 1889, before its 1920 revival.