1917 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1917 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1917 college football season. The team finished with a 2–0 record under first-year head coach Keene Fitzpatrick, outscoring opponents by a total of 50 to 0 in games against Fort Dix and Wissahickon Barracks.[1] No Princeton players were selected as first-team honorees on the 1917 College Football All-America Team.

1917 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
1917 record2–0
Head coach
CaptainJack Winn
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
1917 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Pittsburgh      10 0 0
Williams      7 0 1
Yale      3 0 0
Princeton      2 0 0
Syracuse      8 1 1
Army      7 1 0
Rutgers      7 1 1
Penn      9 2 0
Brown      8 2 0
Fordham      7 2 0
Lehigh      7 2 0
Boston College      6 2 0
Wash. & Jeff.      7 3 0
Colgate      4 2 0
Harvard      3 1 3
New Hampshire      3 2 2
Dartmouth      5 3 0
Geneva      5 3 1
Penn State      5 4 0
NYU      2 2 3
Tufts      3 3 0
Carnegie Tech      2 3 1
Bucknell      3 5 1
Lafayette      3 5 0
Rhode Island State      2 4 2
Carlisle      3 6 0
Columbia      2 4 0
Cornell      3 6 0
Franklin & Marshall      2 6 0
Villanova      0 3 2
Temple      0 6 1
Wissahickon Barracks

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 27 307th Field Artillery of Camp DixW 7–0[2]
November 17 Naval Reserve,Wissahickon Barracks at Cape May, NJ Princeton, NJW 41–0[3]

References

  1. "1917 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. "Informal Varsity Wins From Soldier Eleven: Touchdown Made in First Few Minutes of Play Brings Victory, 7 to 0". Daily Princetonian. October 29, 1917. p. 1 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Princeton Trounces Wissahickon Men". New York Tribune. November 18, 1917. p. 4 via Newspapers.com.
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