1894 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1894 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1894 college football season. The team finished with an 8–2 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by one selector, the Houlgate System.[1] They outscored their opponents 204 to 44.[1]

1894 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Houlgate)
ConferenceIndependent
1894 record8–2
Head coach
  • None
CaptainThomas Trenchard
1894 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Yale      16 0 0
Penn      12 0 0
Villanova      1 0 0
Penn State      6 0 1
Harvard      11 2 0
Geneva      5 1 0
Princeton      8 2 0
Temple      4 1 0
Pittsburgh College      7 2 1
Brown      10 5 0
Bucknell      5 3 0
Colgate      2 1 1
Army      3 2 0
Frankin & Marshall      6 4 0
Cornell      6 4 1
Amherst      7 5 0
Trinity (CT)      4 3 0
Syracuse      6 5 0
Tufts      6 5 0
Boston College      3 3 0
Massachusetts      3 3 0
Western Univ. Penn      1 1 0
Lafayette      5 6 0
New Hampshire      2 3 0
Rutgers      4 6 0
Lehigh      5 9 0
Drexel      1 2 1
Williams      1 3 0
MIT      1 4 0
Carlisle      1 8 0
NYU      0 3 0
Wesleyan      0 5 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 29LafayettePrinceton, NJW 40–0
October 3at LehighBethlehem, PAW 8–0
October 10RutgersPrinceton, NJ (rivalry)W 48–0
October 15vs. VirginiaBaltimore, MDW 12–0
October 20vs. CornellW 12–4
October 27LehighPrinceton, NJW 32–0
November 3Volunteer Athletic ClubPrinceton, NJW 40–0
November 10vs. Penn
L 0–12[2]
November 26at Orange Athletic ClubOrange, NJW 12–4
December 1vs. YaleNew York, NY (rivalry)L 0–24

References

  1. "1894 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. "Pennsylvania 12; Tigers 0". The New York Times. 11 November 1894. p. 3. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
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