1901 Princeton Tigers football team

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1901 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–1–1
Head coach
CaptainWilliamson Pell
Home stadiumUniversity Field
Seasons
← 1900
1902 →
1901 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard   –   12 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   11 – 1 – 1
Cornell   –   11 – 1 – 0
Dartmouth   –   10 – 1 – 0
Massachusetts   –   9 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   9 – 1 – 1
Syracuse   –   7 – 1 – 0
Holy Cross   –   7 – 1 – 1
Geneva   –   6 – 1 – 1
Army   –   5 – 1 – 2
Western U. of Penn   –   7 – 2 – 1
Lafayette   –   9 – 3 – 0
Swarthmore   –   8 – 2 – 2
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 2 – 2
Frankin & Marshall   –   7 – 3 – 1
Penn   –   10 – 5 – 0
Buffalo   –   4 – 2 – 0
Columbia   –   8 – 5 – 0
Fordham   –   2 – 1 – 1
Penn State   –   5 – 3 – 0
Bucknell   –   6 – 4 – 0
Pittsburgh College   –   3 – 2 – 0
Temple   –   3 – 2 – 0
NYU   –   4 – 3 – 1
Tufts   –   6 – 6 – 1
Vermont   –   5 – 5 – 1
Dickinson   –   3 – 4 – 0
Carlisle   –   5 – 7 – 1
Brown   –   4 – 7 – 1
Villanova   –   2 – 3 – 0
Drexel   –   2 – 5 – 1
Colgate   –   2 – 5 – 0
Boston College   –   1 – 8 – 0
Lehigh   –   1 – 11 – 0
New Hampshire   –   0 – 6 – 0
Rutgers   –   0 – 7 – 0

The 1901 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1901 college football season. The team finished with a 9–1–1 record under first-year head coach Langdon Lea. The Tigers won their first nine games, including eight shutouts, and outscored their opponents by a total of 247 to 24. The team's only loss was in the last game of the season by a 12–0 score against Yale.[1] Princeton end Ralph Tipton Davis was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1901 College Football All-America Team.[2]

Schedule[edit]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2 Villanova
W 35–0[3]
October 5 Haverford
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 47–0[4]
October 9 NYU
  • University Field
  • Princeton, N
W 23–0[5]
October 12 Lehigh
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 35–0[6]
October 16 Dickinson
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 23–0[7]
October 19 Brown
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 35–0[8]
October 23 Orange Athletic Club
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 29–0[9]
October 26 Lafayette
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 6–03,000[10]
November 2at Cornell
W 8–6[11]
November 9at Army
T 6–6[12]
November 16at Yale
L 0–12> 19,000[13]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "1901 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
  3. ^ "Easy Walkover for the Tigers". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 3, 1901. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Princeton, 47; Haverford, 0". The New York Times. October 6, 1901. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Princeton 23, N.Y. University 0". New York Tribune. October 10, 1901. p. 10. Retrieved February 3, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Princeton, 35; Lehigh, 0". The New York Times. October 13, 1901. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Princeton, 23; Dickinson, 0". The New York Times. October 17, 1901. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Princeton, 35; Brown, 0". New York Daily Tribune. October 20, 1901. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Princeton Smashes Orange Line: Offside Play and Fumbling Accompany Tigers' Victory". New York Daily Tribune. October 24, 1901. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Princeton, 6; Lafayette, 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 27, 1901. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Princeton, 8; Cornell, 6". The New York Times. November 3, 1901. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Soldiers Tie Princeton: Football Game at West Point Ended with Score Six All". The New York Times. November 10, 1901. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Yale and Cornell Winners: Princeton Unable To Score Against Old Eli; Rout of the Tigers". New York Tribune. November 17, 1901. pp. 1–2 – via Newspapers.com.
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