The Princeton University Band serves as the marching band and pep band of Princeton University. Like most other Ivy League bands, it is a scramble band. To members and fans, it is often known as the PUB (pronounced Pea You Bee) or simply The Band. Many alumni refer to it as the Tiger Band.

The modern Princeton University Band was established in October of 1919 when a group of undergraduate musicians decided that a regular musical presence was needed at Palmer Stadium, home of Princeton's multi-time national champion football team; however, these events were in many ways merely a reorganization of the preexisting R.O.T.C. Band that had served a much smaller role on campus since as early as 1888, making Princeton's Band one of the oldest in the country.

For decades, the PUB performed on a tight budget, clad only in black sweaters and white pants; however, thanks to the contributions of many alumni supporters in 1936, the band was able to afford new instruments, music, and, most notably, new uniforms — black blazers with orange collars and a Princeton Band insignia on the breast pocket. It was then that the PUB started the tradition wearing formal wear rather than paramilitary uniforms — a trend that would later be emulated by all the other Ivy League football bands, as well as those of Stanford, the University of Virginia, Rice, and others.

The nineteen-fifties witnessed an era of great transition for the band, as it gradually became more like the Princeton University Band with which most are familiar with today. In 1952, the band switched from black to orange-and-black plaid blazers and continued to wear the straw hats that had been introduced a year or two earlier. This has been the uniform of the PUB for over 55 years. In 1955, the band began experimenting with the field scramble for the first time. The first scramble was in a half-time show at a game against Rutgers at Palmer Stadium where the band "scattered" into a "59," the graduation year of the then-freshman class, making the Princeton University Band one of the very first scramble bands. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.