1906 Princeton Tigers football team

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1906 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Helms, NCF)
ConferenceIndependent
1906 record9–0–1
Head coach
  • Bill Roper (1st season)
Offensive schemeShort punt
CaptainHerb Dillon
Seasons
← 1905
1907 →
1906 Eastern college football independents records
  • v
  • t
 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton   –   9 – 0 – 1
Yale   –   9 – 0 – 1
Haverford   –   7 – 0 – 2
Harvard   –   10 – 1 – 0
Cornell   –   8 – 1 – 2
Lafayette   –   8 – 1 – 1
Penn State   –   8 – 1 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   9 – 2 – 0
Swarthmore   –   7 – 2 – 0
Drexel   –   6 – 2 – 0
Tufts   –   6 – 2 – 0
Penn   –   7 – 2 – 3
Carlisle   –   9 – 3 – 0
Brown   –   6 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   5 – 2 – 2
Dartmouth   –   6 – 3 – 1
Syracuse   –   6 – 3 – 0
Colgate   –   4 – 2 – 2
Vermont   –   5 – 4 – 0
Fordham   –   5 – 3 – 0
Western U. of Penn.   –   6 – 4 – 0
Holy Cross   –   4 – 3 – 1
Amherst   –   3 – 3 – 1
Lehigh   –   5 – 5 – 1
Bucknell   –   3 – 4 – 1
Dickinson   –   3 – 4 – 2
Carnegie Tech   –   2 – 3 – 2
Army   –   3 – 5 – 1
Frankin & Marshall   –   3 – 5 – 1
Wesleyan   –   2 – 4 – 1
New Hampshire   –   2 – 5 – 1
Villanova   –   3 – 7 – 0
NYU   –   0 – 4 – 0

The 1906 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1906 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0–1 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and National Championship Foundation.[1][2] They outscored their opponents 205 to 9.[2]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 29VillanovaPrinceton, NJW 24–0
October 3StevensPrinceton, NJW 22–0
October 6Washington & JeffersonPrinceton, NJW 6–0
October 10LehighPrinceton, NJW 52–0
October 13at Navy
  • Worden Field
  • Annapolis, MD
W 5–0
October 20BucknellPrinceton, NJW 32–4
October 27vs. Cornell
  • Polo Grounds
  • New York, NY
W 14–5
November 3DartmouthPrinceton, NJW 42–0
November 10at Army
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 8–0
November 17YalePrinceton, NJ (rivalry)T 0–0

[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 "1906 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
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