1899 Princeton Tigers football team

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1899 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Billingsley, Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
1899 record12–1
Head coach
  • None
CaptainBig Bill Edwards
Seasons
← 1898
1900 →
1899 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard     10 0 1
Buffalo     6 0 0
Lafayette     12 1 0
Princeton     12 1 0
Boston College     8 1 1
Carlisle     9 2 0
Swarthmore     8 1 2
Washington & Jefferson     9 2 1
Wesleyan     7 2 0
Pittsburgh College     2 0 2
Villanova     7 2 1
Yale     7 2 1
Western Univ. of Penn.     3 1 1
Columbia     9 3 0
Fordham     3 1 0
Cornell     7 3 0
Penn     8 3 2
Brown     7 3 1
New Hampshire     4 2 0
Vermont     5 3 0
Tufts     7 4 0
Bucknell     6 4 0
Holy Cross     5 5 0
Syracuse     4 4 0
Army     4 5 0
Colgate     4 5 0
Penn State     4 6 1
Frankin & Marshall     3 5 1
NYU     2 6 0
Temple     1 4 1
Dartmouth     2 7 0
Lehigh     2 9 0
Rutgers     2 9 0
Geneva     0 3 0

The 1899 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1899 college football season. The team finished with a 12–1 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report and Parke H. Davis. Harvard compiled a 10–0–1 record and was selected as the national champion by three other selectors.[1][2] They outscored their opponents 185 to 21.[2]

Schedule[]

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultSource
September 30at Maryland Athletic ClubBaltimore, MDW 28–0
October 7at Navy
  • Worden Field
  • Annapolis, MD
W 5–0
October 11LafayettePrinceton, NJW 12–0
October 142:45 p.m.at Columbia
  • Manhattan Field
  • New York, NY
W 11–0[3]
October 18Penn StatePrinceton, NJW 12–0
October 21at Army
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 23–0
October 28LehighPrinceton, NJW 17–0
November 1at CornellIthaca, NYL 0–5
November 4BrownPrinceton, NJW 18–6
November 8North CarolinaPrinceton, NJW 30–0
November 11at CarlisleCarlisle, PAW 12–0
November 183:00 p.m.Washington & JeffersonPrinceton, NJW 6–0[4]
November 25at Yale
W 11–10
  • All times are in Eastern time

[2]

References[]

  1. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. ^ a b c "1899 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  3. ^ "Princeton 11, Columbia 0". Democrat and Chronicle. Rochester, New York. October 15, 1899. p. 19. Retrieved May 2, 2020 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  4. ^ "Tigers Surprised". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 19, 1899. p. 14. Retrieved September 28, 2021 – via Newspapers.com open access.
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