1895 Princeton Tigers football team

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1895 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
1895 record10–1–1
Head coach
  • None
CaptainLangdon Lea
Seasons
← 1894
1896 →
1895 Eastern college football independents records
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn   –   14 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   13 – 0 – 2
Princeton   –   10 – 1 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 1 – 1
Harvard   –   8 – 2 – 1
Lafayette   –   6 – 2 – 0
Syracuse   –   6 – 2 – 2
Army   –   5 – 2 – 0
Bucknell   –   5 – 2 – 0
Colgate   –   4 – 2 – 0
Swarthmore   –   7 – 4 – 1
Tufts   –   8 – 5 – 0
Villanova   –   4 – 2 – 0
Wesleyan   –   6 – 3 – 0
Amherst   –   6 – 5 – 0
Brown   –   7 – 6 – 1
Carlisle   –   4 – 4 – 0
Drexel   –   3 – 3 – 1
Penn State   –   2 – 2 – 3
Cornell   –   3 – 4 – 1
Rutgers   –   3 – 4 – 0
New Hampshire   –   2 – 3 – 1
Frankin & Marshall   –   3 – 5 – 1
Boston College   –   2 – 4 – 2
Lehigh   –   3 – 6 – 0
CCNY   –   2 – 5 – 1
Temple   –   1 – 4 – 1
MIT   –   1 – 4 – 0
Trinity (CT)   –   1 – 4 – 0
Massachusetts   –   1 – 5 – 0
Western Univ. Penn.   –   1 – 6 – 0
Geneva   –   0 – 5 – 0

The 1895 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1895 college football season. The team finished with a 10–1–1 record. The Tigers recorded nine shutouts and outscored opponents by a combined score of 224 to 28. The team's sole loss was in the last game of the season by a 20–10 score against Yale.[1]

Two Princeton players, tackle Langdon Lea and guard Dudley Riggs, were consensus first-team honorees on the 1895 College Football All-America Team.[2]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2at Elizabeth Athletic ClubElizabeth, NJW 40–0[3]
October 5RutgersPrinceton, NJ (rivalry)W 22–0[4]
October 9vs. Virginia
  • Catonsville Country Club
  • Baltimore, MD
W 36–03,000[5]
October 12Lafayette
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 14–0[6]
October 15at Lawrenceville School
  • Lawrenceville Grounds
  • Lawrenceville, NJ
W 38–0[7]
October 17Princeton Seminary
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 10–4[8]
October 19vs. Lehigh
W 16–02,000[9]
October 23Union (NY)
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 22–0[10]
October 26at Orange Athletic Club
T 0–03,000[11]
November 2Harvard
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 12–46,000[12]
November 9vs. Cornell
W 6–0[13]
November 23vs. Yale
  • Manhattan Field
  • New York, NY (rivalry)
L 10–2035,000[14]

References[]

  1. ^ "1895 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
  3. ^ "In a Slugging Game at Elizabeth: Princeton Tigers Find the Athletic Club Easy to Defeat". Chicago Tribune. October 3, 1895. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Princeton's Tigers Roast the University of Virginia by 36 to 0 on Catonsville's Gridiron". The Sun (Baltimore). October 10, 1895. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Princeton's Tigers Roast the University of Virginia by 36 to 0 on Catonsville's Gridiron". The Sun (Baltimore). October 10, 1895. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Princeton, 14; Lafayette, 0: Excellent Defensive Work by the Easton Boys Kept the Score Down". The New York Times. October 13, 1895. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Several Princeton Men Are Hurt: Tigers Have a Sharp and Snappy Game with the Lawrenceville "Preps"". Chicago Tribune. October 16, 1895. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Tigers vs. Seminarians: The Varsity Team Defeats the Princeton Seminarians". Union Leader. October 18, 1895. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Princeton and Lehigh: The Tigers Put Up a Weak Game and Disappointed Their Many Admirers". The Times (Philadelphia). October 20, 1895. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Princeton, 22; Union, 0". The New York Times. October 24, 1895. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "A Great Game: The Tigers Were Unable to Score Against Orange". The Sunday News Dealer. October 27, 1895. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Princeton, 12; Harvard, 4". The New York Times. November 3, 1895. pp. 1–2 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Princeton, 6; Cornell, 0". The New York Times. November 10, 1895. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Yale Downs the Tiger: Princeton Defeated on Manhattan Field by a Score of 20 to 10". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 24, 1895. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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