1891 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1891 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1891 college football season. The team finished with a 12–1 record. The Tigers recorded 12 shutouts and outscored opponents by a combined total of 391 to 0 in their first 12 games.[1] The team's sole loss was in the final game of the season by a 19–0 score against Yale.[2]

1891 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
1891 record12–1
Head coach
  • None
CaptainRalph Warren
Home stadiumUniversity Field
1891 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Yale      13 0 0
Harvard      13 1 0
Princeton      12 1 0
Tufts      7 1 0
Penn      11 2 0
Colgate      4 1 0
Army      4 1 1
Navy      5 2 0
Bucknell      6 2 1
Cornell      7 3 0
Geneva      4 2 0
Washington & Jefferson      4 2 0
Amherst      8 4 3
Lehigh      7 4 0
Delaware      5 3 1
Rutgers      8 6 0
Dartmouth      2 2 1
Brown      4 6 0
Fordham      1 2 1
Syracuse      4 7 0
Franklin & Marshall      2 4 0
Massachusetts      2 5 0
Western Univ. Penn.      2 6 0
Lafayette      2 9 1
Columbia      1 5 0
Wesleyan      1 6 0

Three Princeton players, quarterback Philip King, fullback Sheppard Homans, Jr., and guard Jesse Riggs, were consensus first-team honorees on the 1891 College Football All-America Team.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 3RutgersW 12–0[4]
October 8at LehighBethlehem, PAW 18–02,000[5]
October 10at Crescent Athletic ClubW 28–03,000[6]
October 14Lehigh
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 30–0[7]
October 17at Franklin & Marshall
W 44–0> 1,500[8]
October 20at LafayetteEaston, PAW 24–0[9]
October 24New York Athletic Club
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 28–0[10]
October 28Manhattan Athletic Club
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 78–0[11]
October 31vs. WesleyanW 73–03,000[12]
November 3at Orange Athletic ClubW 26–03,500[13]
November 7at PennPhiladelphia, PA (rivalry)W 24–04,000[14]
November 14Cornell
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 6–02,000[15]
November 26vs. Yale
  • Manhattan Field
  • New York, NY (rivalry)
L 0–1940,000[16]

References

  1. "1891 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. "All-Time Princeton Results" (PDF). goprincetontigers.com. Princeton University. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  3. "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
  4. "Princeton's Poor Showing: Rutgers Makes the Yellow and Black Wearers Play to Win". The Times (Philadelphia). October 4, 1891. p. 14 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Princeton Defeats Lehigh: Superior Weight Was All That Gave the Jersey College Lads the Game". The Times (Philadelphia). October 9, 1891. p. 3 via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Victory for Princeton: The Crescents Lose Again at Eastern Park". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 11, 1891. p. 7 via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Football at Princeton: The Lehigh Team Defeated by the Score of 30 to 0". The New York Times. October 15, 1891. p. 2 via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Princeton Wins Easily: The College Team Has a Walkover With Franklin and Marshall". The Times (Philadelphia). October 18, 1891. p. 14 via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Princeton, 24; Lafayette, 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 21, 1891. p. 3 via Newspapers.com.
  10. "New York A. C. Whitewashed: Princeton Scores 28 Points to Athletes' Nothing". The Sun (New York). October 25, 1891. p. 5 via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Princeton's Top Score: They Roll Up 78 Points Against the Manhattan Team". The Times (Philadelphia). October 29, 1891. p. 3 via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Score One for Princeton: She Defeats Wesleyan in a Championship Game". The New York Times. November 1, 1891. p. 3 via Newspapers.com.
  13. "Princeton, 26; Orange, 0". The Sun (New York). November 4, 1891. p. 5 via Newspapers.com.
  14. "Princeton's Game: The Jersey Tiger Wins by a Score of 24 to 0". The Times (Philadelphia). November 8, 1891. p. 9 via Newspapers.com.
  15. "Princeton Beats Cornell: A Very Close and Exciting Game Between the Two Elevens". The New York Times. November 15, 1891. p. 3 via Newspapers.com.
  16. "Yale Still Triumphant: Princeton Beaten on Manhattan Field by a Score of 19 to 0". The Sun (New York). November 27, 1891. pp. 1–2 via Newspapers.com.
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