1920 Princeton Tigers football team

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1920 Princeton Tigers football
Co-national champion (Boand, Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
1920 record6–0–1
Head coach
  • Bill Roper (7th season)
Offensive schemeShort punt
CaptainHenry Callahan
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
Uniform
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Seasons
← 1919
1921 →
1920 Eastern college football independents records
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Boston College   –   8 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –   8 – 0 – 1
Princeton   –   6 – 0 – 1
Penn State   –   7 – 0 – 2
Pittsburgh   –   6 – 0 – 2
Army   –   7 – 2 – 0
Dartmouth   –   7 – 2 – 0
Cornell   –   6 – 2 – 0
Syracuse   –   6 – 2 – 1
Geneva   –   5 – 2 – 1
New Hampshire   –   5 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   6 – 3 – 0
Bucknell   –   6 – 3 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 3 – 1
Penn   –   6 – 4 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   5 – 3 – 0
Lafayette   –   5 – 3 – 0
Holy Cross   –   5 – 3 – 0
Williams   –   5 – 3 – 0
Yale   –   5 – 3 – 0
Fordham   –   4 – 3 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   3 – 2 – 2
Boston University   –   4 – 3 – 1
Columbia   –   4 – 4 – 0
Duquesne   –   3 – 3 – 1
Vermont   –   3 – 5 – 0
NYU   –   2 – 5 – 1
Rhode Island State   –   0 – 4 – 4
Tufts   –   2 – 6 – 0
Rutgers   –   2 – 7 – 0
Colgate   –   1 – 5 – 2
Villanova   –   1 – 5 – 1
Drexel   –   0 – 6 – 0

The 1920 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1920 college football season. They finished with a 6–0–1 record and were retroactively selected as a co-national champion by the Boand System and Parke H. Davis.[1] They outscored their opponents 144 to 23.[2] Bill Roper served in his seventh season as head coach. Keene Fitzpatrick, Frank Glick, and Jack Winn were assistant coaches.[3]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2Swarthmore
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 17–6
October 9Maryland
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 35–0[4]
October 16Washington and Lee
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 34–0
October 23Navy
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 14–0
October 30West Virginia
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 10–37,000[5]
November 6at Harvard
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
T 14–14
November 13Yale
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 20–0

[2]

References[]

  1. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
  2. ^ a b "1920 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  3. ^ Donal Grant Herring (November 24, 1920). "The Princeton Season Reviewed". Princeton Alumni Weekly. pp. 173–176.
  4. ^ "Tigers Get 35 Points Against Marylanders". The Sunday Star. October 10, 1920. p. 26 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Princeton Rather Fortunate In Defeating West Virginia Mountaineers". The Pittsburg Press. October 31, 1920. p. Sporting 6 – via Newspapers.com.
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