1903 Princeton Tigers football team

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1903 Princeton Tigers football
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National champion
(Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate, Davis)
Co-national champion (NCF)
ConferenceIndependent
1903 record11–0
Head coach
  • Art Hillebrand (1st season)
CaptainJohn DeWitt
Seasons
← 1902
1904 →
1903 Eastern college football independents records
  • v
  • t
 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton   –   11 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   11 – 1 – 0
Columbia   –   9 – 1 – 0
Dartmouth   –   9 – 1 – 0
Geneva   –   9 – 1 – 0
Holy Cross   –   8 – 2 – 0
Temple   –   4 – 1 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   8 – 2 – 0
Lehigh   –   9 – 2 – 1
Harvard   –   9 – 3 – 0
Penn   –   9 – 3 – 0
Army   –   6 – 2 – 1
Carlisle   –   6 – 2 – 1
Amherst   –   7 – 3 – 0
Lafayette   –   7 – 3 – 0
Cornell   –   6 – 3 – 1
Colgate   –   4 – 2 – 1
Penn State   –   5 – 3 – 0
Swarthmore   –   6 – 4 – 0
Brown   –   5 – 4 – 1
Syracuse   –   5 – 4 – 0
Fordham   –   1 – 1 – 0
Frankin & Marshall   –   5 – 5 – 1
Rutgers   –   4 – 4 – 1
Delaware   –   4 – 4 – 0
Villanova   –   2 – 2 – 0
Bucknell   –   4 – 5 – 0
Vermont   –   4 – 5 – 0
Tufts   –   5 – 8 – 0
Wesleyan   –   3 – 6 – 1
NYU   –   2 – 5 – 0
New Hampshire   –   2 – 6 – 1
Pittsburgh College   –   1 – 5 – 1
Western U. Penn.   –   1 – 8 – 1

The 1903 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1903 college football season. The team finished with an 11–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and Parke H. Davis, and as a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation.[1][2] They outscored their opponents 259 to 6.[2]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 30SwarthmorePrinceton, NJW 34–0
October 3GeorgetownPrinceton, NJW 5–0
October 7GettysburgPrinceton, NJW 68–0
October 10at BrownProvidence, RIW 29–0
October 14LehighPrinceton, NJW 12–0[3]
October 17CarlislePrinceton, NJW 11–0
October 21BucknellPrinceton, NJW 17–0
October 24DartmouthPrinceton, NJW 17–0
October 31CornellPrinceton, NJW 44–0
November 7LafayettePrinceton, NJW 11–0
November 14at Yale
W 11–6

[2]

References[]

  1. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. ^ a b c "1903 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  3. ^ "Orange And Black". The Scranton Republican. Scranton, Pennsylvania. October 15, 1903. p. 1. Retrieved November 12, 2021 – via Newspapers.com open access.

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