1894 Princeton Tigers football team

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1894 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Houlgate)
ConferenceIndependent
1894 record8–2
Head coach
  • None
CaptainThomas Trenchard
Seasons
← 1893
1895 →
1894 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   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
Washington & Jefferson     5 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
Massachusetts     3 3 0
Swarthmore     5 5 0
Western Univ. Penn     1 1 0
Lafayette     5 6 0
New Hampshire     2 3 0
Rutgers     4 6 0
Lehigh     5 9 0
Williams     1 3 0
Drexel     1 3 0
MIT     1 4 0
Boston College     1 6 0
Carlisle     1 8 0
NYU     0 3 0
Wesleyan     0 5 0

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]

Schedule[]

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultSource
September 29LafayettePrinceton, NJW 40–0
October 3at LehighBethlehem, PAW 8–0
October 10RutgersPrinceton, NJ (rivalry)W 48–0
October 152:00 p.m.vs. Virginia
  • Catonsville Country Cub
  • Catonsville , MD
W 12–0[2][3]
October 20vs. Cornell
  • Manhattan Field
  • New York, NY
W 12–4
October 27LehighPrinceton, NJW 32–0
November 3Volunteer Athletic ClubPrinceton, NJW 40–0
November 10vs. Penn
  • State Fair Grounds
  • Trenton, NJ (rivalry)
L 0–12[4]
November 26at Orange Athletic ClubOrange, NJW 12–4
December 1vs. YaleNew York, NY (rivalry)L 0–24
  • All times are in Eastern time

References[]

  1. ^ a b "1894 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "Ready For Tackling". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, MD. October 15, 1894. p. 8. Retrieved September 14, 2021 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  3. ^ "Study Young Kickers". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, MD. October 16, 1894. p. 8. Retrieved September 14, 2021 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  4. ^ "Pennsylvania 12; Tigers 0". The New York Times. 11 November 1894. p. 3. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
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