1922 Princeton Tigers football team

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1922 Princeton Tigers football
Teamofdestiny.jpg
National champion (Boand, CFRA)
Co-national champion (NCF, Davis, Sagarin-ELO)
ConferenceIndependent
1922 record8–0
Head coach
  • Bill Roper (9th season)
Offensive schemeShort punt
CaptainMel Dickenson
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
Uniform
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Seasons
← 1921
1923 →
1922 Eastern college football independents records
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Cornell   –   8 – 0 – 0
Princeton   –   8 – 0 – 0
Army   –   8 – 0 – 2
Syracuse   –   6 – 1 – 2
Franklin & Marshall   –   8 – 2 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   8 – 2 – 0
Holy Cross   –   7 – 2 – 1
Harvard   –   7 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   7 – 2 – 0
Boston College   –   6 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   6 – 2 – 1
Colgate   –   6 – 3 – 0
Dartmouth   –   6 – 3 – 0
Penn   –   6 – 3 – 0
Vermont   –   6 – 3 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 3 – 1
Yale   –   6 – 3 – 1
Bucknell   –   7 – 4 – 0
Penn State   –   6 – 4 – 1
Carnegie Tech   –   5 – 3 – 1
Villanova   –   5 – 3 – 1
Columbia   –   5 – 4 – 0
Rutgers   –   5 – 4 – 0
Tufts   –   5 – 4 – 0
Rhode Island State   –   4 – 4 – 0
NYU   –   4 – 5 – 0
Fordham   –   3 – 5 – 2
Geneva   –   4 – 6 – 0
Boston University   –   2 – 4 – 3
Lehigh   –   3 – 5 – 1
New Hampshire   –   3 – 5 – 1
Drexel   –   2 – 4 – 0
Temple   –   1 – 4 – 1
CCNY   –   1 – 6 – 0
Duquesne   –   0 – 8 – 0

The 1922 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1922 college football season. The team finished with an 8–0 record and was retroactively named as the 1922 national champion by the Boand System and College Football Researchers Association, and as a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation, Parke H. Davis, and Jeff Sagarin (using the ELO-Chess methodology).[1] They outscored their opponents 127 to 34.[2]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendance
September 30Johns Hopkins
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 30–0
October 7Virginia
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 5–0
October 14Colgate
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 10–0
October 21Maryland
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 26–0
October 28at Chicago
  • Stagg Field
  • Chicago, IL (First national radio broadcast)
W 21–1831,000
November 4Swarthmore
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 22–13
November 11at Harvard
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 10–3
November 18Yale
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 3–0

[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 "1922 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
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