1950 Princeton Tigers football team
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| AP | No. 6 |
The 1950 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) intercollegiate competition during the 1950 season. The Tigers were led by sixth-year head coach Charlie Caldwell, a future College Football Hall of Fame inductee, who utilized an "unbalanced" version of the single-wing formation.[2] The Princeton offense, which made use of the buck-lateral series, was one of the last successful employers of the single-wing formation, which had been made obsolete by the modernized T formation.[3]
Princeton finished with a perfect undefeated record of 9–0, and the Tigers outscored their opponents 349–94. Against other Ivy League teams, Princeton compiled a 5–0 record and outscored their opponents 184–45, although the conference did not begin awarding a football championship until 1956.[4]
Some selectors named Princeton the national champions, most notably the NCAA-recognized Poling System and Boand System.[5] Princeton was the sixth-ranked team in both the Associated Press and United Press final polls. After the season, Tigers halfback Dick Kazmaier, tackle Holland Donan, and center Redmond Finney received first-team All-America honors.[6] Kazmaier and Donan were eventually inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.[7][8]
Schedule
September 30, 1950Williams
W 66–0 October 7, 1950Rutgers
W 34–28 October 14, 1950Navy
W 20–14 October 21, 1950at Brown
W 34–0 October 28, 1950Cornell
W 27–0 November 4, 1950ColgateNo. 10
W 45–7 November 11, 1950HarvardNo. 8
W 63–26 November 18, 1950YaleNo. 7
W 47–12 November 25, 1950DartmouthNo. 7
W 13–7
References
- ^ The Poling System and the Boand System computed Princeton as the 1950 national championship team.
- ^ A Very Brief Look at "the" Single-Wing, Coach Wyatt, retrieved June 19, 2009. Archived 2009-06-22.
- ^ Masin, Herman L., [It Fit the Millennium To A T! http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-27450841_ITM], Coach and Athletic Director, 2000, retrieved August 14, 2010.
- ^ 1950 Princeton Tigers, College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved June 19, 2009. Archived 2009-06-22.
- ^ "National Poll Champions", 2007 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF), p. 77, National Collegiate Athletic Association, 2007. Accessed 2009-06-19. Archived 2009-06-22.
- ^ ESPN College Football Encyclopedia, p. 1218, New York: ESPN Books, 2005, ISBN 1-4013-3703-1.
- ^ Dick "Kaz" Kazmaier, College Football Hall of Fame, National Football Foundation, retrieved 30 April 2010.
- ^ Hollie Donan, College Football Hall of Fame, National Football Foundation, retrieved 30 April 2010.