1911 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1911 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1911 college football season. The team finished with an 8–0–2 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and Parke H. Davis, and as a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation.[1][2] They outscored their opponents 179 to 15.[2]

1911 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Helms, Houlgate, Davis
Co-national champion (NCF)
ConferenceIndependent
1911 record8–0–2
Head coach
Offensive schemeShort punt
CaptainEd Hart
Home stadiumOsborne Field
1911 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Penn State      8 0 1
Carlisle      11 1 0
Princeton      8 0 2
Trinity (CT)      6 0 2
Temple      6 1 0
Army      6 1 1
Dartmouth      8 2 0
Lafayette      8 2 0
Yale      7 2 1
Harvard      6 2 1
Cornell      7 3 0
Rhode Island State      5 2 1
Brown      7 3 1
Bucknell      6 3 1
Penn      7 4 0
Pittsburgh      4 3 1
Washington & Jefferson      6 4 0
Syracuse      5 3 2
Lehigh      5 5 1
Rutgers      4 4 1
St. Bonaventure      2 2 0
Carnegie Tech      4 5 0
Tufts      3 4 0
NYU      1 3 3
Colgate      3 6 0
Franklin & Marshall      3 6 0
Villanova      0 5 1
Geneva      0 6 1
Boston College      0 7 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 30StevensW 37–0
October 4Rutgers
  • Osborne Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 37–0
October 7Villanova
  • Osborne Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 31–0
October 11Lehigh
  • Osborne Field
  • Princeton, NJ
T 6–6
October 14Colgate
  • Osborne Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 31–0
October 21NavyT 0–0
October 28Holy Cross
  • Osborne Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 20–0
November 4Harvard
  • Osborne Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 8–6
November 11Dartmouth
  • Osborne Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 3–0
November 18YaleW 6–3

[2]

References

  1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. "1911 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
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