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American college football season
The 1900 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1900 college football season . The team finished with an 8–3 record. The Tigers won their first eight games by a combined score of 159 to 10, but then lost the last three games of the season against Cornell, Columbia and Yale .[ 1] No Princeton players received first-team honors on the 1900 College Football All-America Team .
Schedule
Date Time Opponent Site Result Attendance Source October 3 3:30 p.m. Stevens W 40–0[ 2] [ 3]
October 6 Lehigh Osborne Field Princeton, NJ W 12–5[ 4] [ 5]
October 10 Penn State Princeton, NJ W 26–0[ 6] [ 7]
October 12 at Baltimore Medical College W 11–01,500 [ 8]
October 13 at Navy W 5–0[ 9]
October 17 Syracuse Osborne Field Princeton, NJ W 43–0[ 10]
October 20 at Lafayette Easton, PA W 5–04,000 [ 11]
October 27 3:10 p.m. at Brown W 17–55,000 [ 12]
November 3 2:45 p.m. Cornell Princeton, NJ L 0–12[ 13]
November 6 2:45 p.m. at Columbia L 5–610,000 [ 14] [ 15]
November 17 2:45 p.m. Yale University Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry ) L 5–2915,000 [ 16] [ 17] [ 18]
References
^ "1900 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results" . SR/College Football . Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017 .
^ "Tiger Ends Do Brilliant Work in First Game: Stevens Beaten 42 to 0 and Little and Roper Are the Stars" . The Philadelphia Inquirer . October 4, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com . (other sources report score as 40-0)
^ "Princeton, 40; Stevens, 0" . Daily Princetonian . October 4, 1890. p. 1.
^ "Princeton, 12; Lehigh, 5" . The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . October 7, 1900. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Tigers Scored on by Lehigh" . The Philadelphia Inquirer . October 7, 1900. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com . (Osborne Field)
^ "Princeton's Strong Game" . The New York Times . October 11, 1900. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Princeton, 26; State College, 0" . Daily Princetonian . October 11, 1900. p. 1.
^ "Princeton by 11 to 0: Thus Results a Vicious Battle Against Baltimore Meds" . The Sun (Baltimore) . October 13, 1900. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Princeton, 5; Annapolis, 0" . The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . October 14, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Tigers Show Improvement" . The Philadelphia Inquirer . October 18, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Tigers Beat Lafayette: Princeton Wins a Hard Fight by a Score of 5 to 0" . The Inter Ocean . October 21, 1900. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Princeton, 17; Brown, 5" . New York Tribune . October 28, 1900. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Cornell Beat Princeton" . The New York Times . November 4, 1900. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Columbia Is Victorious" . The New York Times . November 7, 1900. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Columbia Beat Tigers in Closely Fought Game" . The Philadelphia Times . November 7, 1900. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Yale Scores 29, Princeton 5" . The Philadelphia Inquirer . November 18, 1900. pp. 1, 15 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Yale Buries Princeton: Sons of Eli Score 29 to 5 by the Tigers" . The New York Times . November 18, 1900. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Eli Crushes the Tigers in a One-Sided Game" . The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . November 18, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com .
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