1916 Princeton Tigers football team

1916 Princeton Tigers football
Conference	Independent
1916 record	6–2
Head coach	John H. Rush (2nd season)
Home stadium	Palmer Stadium
Seasons ← 1915 1917 →

1916 Eastern college football independents records
v t	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Army		–		9	–	0	–	0
Pittsburgh		–		8	–	0	–	0
Brown		–		8	–	1	–	0
Colgate		–		8	–	1	–	0
Yale		–		8	–	1	–	0
Fordham		–		6	–	1	–	1
Swarthmore		–		6	–	1	–	1
Penn State		–		8	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson		–		8	–	2	–	0
Boston College		–		6	–	2	–	0
Cornell		–		6	–	2	–	0
Princeton		–		6	–	2	–	0
Lehigh		–		6	–	2	–	1
Dartmouth		–		5	–	2	–	2
Harvard		–		7	–	3	–	0
Penn		–		7	–	3	–	1
Temple		–		3	–	1	–	2
Tufts		–		5	–	3	–	0
Carnegie Tech		–		4	–	3	–	0
Rutgers		–		3	–	2	–	2
NYU		–		4	–	3	–	1
Syracuse		–		5	–	4	–	0
Holy Cross		–		4	–	5	–	0
Vermont		–		4	–	5	–	0
Rhode Island State		–		3	–	4	–	1
Geneva		–		2	–	5	–	2
Carlisle		–		1	–	3	–	1
Lafayette		–		2	–	6	–	1
Bucknell		–		3	–	9	–	0
Columbia		–		1	–	5	–	2
Franklin & Marshall		–		1	–	7	–	0
Villanova		–		1	–	8	–	0

The 1916 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1916 college football season. The team finished with a 6–2 record under second-year head coach John H. Rush.^[1] Princeton guard Frank T. Hogg was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1916 College Football All-America Team.^[2] Three other Princeton players (end Charles Highley, center , and a tackle with the surname McLean) were selected as first-team honorees by at least one selector in 1916.

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 30	at Holy Cross	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 21–0
October 7	North Carolina	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 29–0
October 14	Tufts	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 3–0
October 21	Lafayette	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 33–0
October 28	Dartmouth	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 7–3
November 4	Bucknell	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 42–0
November 11	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 0–3
November 18	Yale	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 0–10

References[]

^ "1916 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
^ "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.

v t Princeton Tigers football
Venues	University Field (1876–1913) Palmer Stadium (1914–1996) Princeton Stadium (1998–2007) Powers Field at Princeton Stadium (2007–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Legacy Bowl Harvard Penn Rutgers Yale
Culture & lore	First American football game (painting) 1922 Chicago game Poe brothers The Tiger "Princeton Cannon Song" Winged football helmet
People	NFL draftees
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