1900 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1900 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1900 college football season. The team finished with an 8–3 record. The Tigers won their first eight games by a combined score of 159 to 10, but then lost the last three games of the season against Cornell, Columbia and Yale.[1] No Princeton players received first-team honors on the 1900 College Football All-America Team.

1900 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
1900 record8–3
Head coach
  • None
CaptainWilliamson Pell
1900 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Yale   –    12 –0 –0
Penn   –    12 –1 –0
Harvard   –    10 –1 –0
Cornell   –    10 –2 –0
Geneva   –    5 –1 –1
Lafayette   –    9 –2 –0
Syracuse   –    7 –2 –1
Princeton   –    8 –3 –0
Fordham   –    3 –1 –1
Army   –    7 –3 –1
Brown   –    7 –3 –1
Columbia   –    7 –3 –1
Villanova   –    5 –2 –2
Carlisle   –    6 –4 –1
Dickinson   –    5 –4 –0
Western Univ. of Penn   –    5 –4 –0
Bucknell   –    4 –4 –1
Rutgers   –    4 –4 –0
Lehigh   –    5 –6 –0
Frankin & Marshall   –    4 –5 –0
Temple   –    3 –4 –1
Pittsburgh College   –    2 –3 –1
Penn State   –    4 –6 –1
Amherst   –    4 –7 –1
Dartmouth   –    2 –4 –2
NYU   –    3 –6 –1
Tufts   –    3 –6 –1
Wesleyan   –    3 –6 –1
New Hampshire   –    1 –5 –1
Colgate   –    2 –8 –0
CCNY   –    0 –1 –0

Schedule
DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 33:30 p.m.Stevens
W 40–0[2][3]
October 6Lehigh
  • Osborne Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 12–5[4][5]
October 10Penn StatePrinceton, NJW 26–0[6][7]
October 12at Baltimore Medical College
W 11–01,500[8]
October 13at Navy
W 5–0[9]
October 17Syracuse
  • Osborne Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 43–0[10]
October 20at LafayetteEaston, PAW 5–04,000[11]
October 273:10 p.m.at Brown
W 17–55,000[12]
November 32:45 p.m.CornellPrinceton, NJL 0–12[13]
November 62:45 p.m.at Columbia
L 5–610,000[14][15]
November 172:45 p.m.Yale
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
L 5–2915,000[16][17]

References
  1. "1900 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. "Tiger Ends Do Brilliant Work in First Game: Stevens Beaten 42 to 0 and Little and Roper Are the Stars". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 4, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.(other sources report score as 40-0)
  3. "Princeton, 40; Stevens, 0". Daily Princetonian. October 4, 1890. p. 1.
  4. "Princeton, 12; Lehigh, 5". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 7, 1900. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Tigers Scored on by Lehigh". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 7, 1900. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.(Osborne Field)
  6. "Princeton's Strong Game". The New York Times. October 11, 1900. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Princeton, 26; State College, 0". Daily Princetonian. October 11, 1900. p. 1.
  8. "Princeton by 11 to 0: Thus Results a Vicious Battle Against Baltimore Meds". The Sun (Baltimore). October 13, 1900. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Princeton, 5; Annapolis, 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 14, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Tigers Show Improvement". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 18, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Tigers Beat Lafayette: Princeton Wins a Hard Fight by a Score of 5 to 0". The Inter Ocean. October 21, 1900. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Princeton, 17; Brown, 5". New York Tribune. October 28, 1900. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. "Cornell Beat Princeton". The New York Times. November 4, 1900. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. "Columbia Is Victorious". The New York Times. November 7, 1900. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. "Columbia Beat Tigers in Closely Fought Game". The Philadelphia Times. November 7, 1900. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. "Yale Buries Princeton: Sons of Eli Score 29 to 5 by the Tigers". The New York Times. November 18, 1900. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. "Eli Crushes the Tigers in a One-Sided Game". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 18, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.(attendance estimate of 15,000; kickoff at 2:45)
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