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1909 Princeton Tigers football team

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1909 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–2–1
Head coach
CaptainRudy Siegling
Home stadiumUniversity Field
Seasons
← 1908
1910 →
1909 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale     10 0 0
Lafayette     7 0 1
Franklin & Marshall     9 1 0
Harvard     9 1 0
Penn State     5 0 2
Washington & Jefferson     8 1 1
Springfield Training School     5 1 0
NYU     6 1 1
Ursinus     6 1 1
Penn     7 1 2
Trinity (CT)     6 1 2
Dartmouth     5 1 2
Fordham     5 1 2
Princeton     6 2 1
Pittsburgh     6 2 1
Carlisle     8 3 1
Colgate     5 2 1
Brown     7 3 1
Geneva     4 2 0
Carnegie Tech     5 3 1
Vermont     4 2 2
Lehigh     4 3 2
Army     3 2 0
Villanova     3 2 0
Dickinson     4 4 1
Syracuse     4 5 1
Bucknell     3 4 2
Boston College     3 4 1
Cornell     3 4 1
Rhode Island State     3 4 0
Rutgers     3 5 1
Wesleyan     3 5 1
Holy Cross     2 4 2
Swarthmore     2 5 0
Drexel     1 5 3
Tufts     2 6 0
Amherst     1 6 1
Temple     0 4 1

The 1909 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1909 college football season. The team finished with a 6–2–1 record under first-year head coach Jim McCormick.[1] No Princeton players were selected as first-team honorees on the 1909 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 29 StevensW 47–12
October 2 Villanova
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 12–0
October 9 Fordham
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 3–0
October 13 VPI
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 8–6
October 16 Sewanee
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 20–0[2]
October 23 Lafayette
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
L 0–6[3]
October 30at NavyW 5–3
November 6 Dartmouth
T 6–6[4]
November 13at Yale L 0–17[5]

References

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  1. ^ "1909 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "Sewanee fails to score; Princeton makes 20 points against Southern collegians". The New York Times. October 17, 1909. Retrieved December 17, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Lafayette Licks Princeton Team By Score Of 6-0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 24, 1909. p. 35. Retrieved November 7, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ "Dartmouth 6, Princeton 6". The Boston Globe. November 7, 1909. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Yale Defeats Princeton, 17-0". The New York Times. November 14, 1909. p. 31 – via Newspapers.com.