1912 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1912 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1912 college football season. The team finished with a 7–1–1 record under first-year head coach Walter G. Andrews, outscoring opponents by a total of 322 to 35 with the sole loss being to Harvard by 16–6 score.[1] Princeton W. John Logan was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1912 College Football All-America Team,[2] and five other players (halfback Hobey Baker, fullback Wallace "Butch" De Witt, guard Rip Shenk, and tackles Phillips and Penfield) were selected as first-team honorees by at least one selector.

1912 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
1912 record7–1–1
Head coach
CaptainTal Pendleton
Home stadiumUniversity Field
1912 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Harvard      9 0 0
Penn State      8 0 0
Carlisle      12 1 1
Princeton      7 1 1
Yale      7 1 1
Lehigh      9 2 0
Dartmouth      7 2 0
Wesleyan      7 2 0
Colgate      5 2 0
Wash. & Jeff.      8 3 1
Rhode Island State      6 3 0
Bucknell      6 3 1
Temple      3 2 0
Penn      7 4 0
Army      5 3 0
Brown      6 4 0
Franklin & Marshall      6 4 0
Rutgers      5 4 0
Tufts      5 4 0
Fordham      4 4 0
Villanova      3 3 0
Morris Harvey      2 2 0
Lafayette      4 5 1
Syracuse      4 5 0
Carnegie Tech      3 4 1
Geneva      3 4 0
Pittsburgh      3 6 0
Boston College      2 4 1
Cornell      3 7 0
NYU      2 6 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 28 StevensW 65–0
October 2 Rutgers
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 41–6
October 5 Lehigh
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 35–0
October 12 VPI
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 31–0
October 19 Syracuse
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 62–0
October 26 Dartmouth
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 22–7
November 2at Harvard L 6–16
November 9 NYU
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 54–0
November 16 Yale
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
T 6–6

References

  1. "1912 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
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