Bob Surace

Biography

QUICK FACTS ON BOB SURACE • guided Princeton to the 2013, 2016, 2018, 2021 Ivy League championships • led Tigers to 10-0 season in 2018, the first perfect season at Princeton since 1964 • Princeton reached #8 ranking in 2018, the highest since Division I-AA/FCS level began in 1978 • 2012, 2013, 2016, 2018 Eddie Robinson Jr. National Head Coach of the Year finalist • 2016, 2018 Ivy League Head Coach of the Year • has coached the two highest-scoring offenses in Ivy League history (2018 and 2013) • had 11 straight seasons of .500 or better • has coached five NFL draft picks (Mike Catapano '13; Caraun Reid '14; Seth DeValve '16, Andrei Iosivas '23, Jalen Travis '24) at Princeton • has coached eight Bushnell Cup winners (Catapano, 2012; Epperly, 2013; Zeuli, 2014; Lovett, 2016/2018; Kanoff, 2017, Tyler, 2021, Liam Johnson '22) • coached Chad Kanoff to single-season Ivy League passing yardage record during 2017 season • one of two people to win an Ivy League title as a player (1989) and head coach (2013, 2016, 2018, 2021) • has coached 192 All-Ivy League honorees, including 60 first-team selections • first-team All-Ivy League center when he led Princeton to the 1989 Ivy League title • coached nine years in the NFL with the Cincinnati Bengals Email Coach Surace at football@princeton.edu Bob Surace ‘90, a four-time finalist for the Eddie Robinson Jr. National Head Coach of the Year award, has built Princeton football into a model FCS program as head coach, complete with four Ivy Leag