1920 Princeton Tigers football team

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1920 Princeton Tigers football
Co-national champion (Boand, Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–0–1
Head coach
Offensive schemeShort punt
CaptainHenry Callahan
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
Uniform
Seasons
← 1919
1921 →
1920 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Boston College     8 0 0
Harvard     8 0 1
Princeton     6 0 1
Penn State     7 0 2
Pittsburgh     6 0 2
Army     7 2 0
Dartmouth     7 2 0
Cornell     6 2 0
Syracuse     6 2 1
Geneva     5 2 1
New Hampshire     5 2 1
Brown     6 3 0
Bucknell     6 3 0
Washington & Jefferson     6 3 1
Penn     6 4 0
Carnegie Tech     5 3 0
Lafayette     5 3 0
Holy Cross     5 3 0
Williams     5 3 0
Yale     5 3 0
Fordham     4 3 0
Franklin & Marshall     3 2 2
Boston University     4 3 1
Columbia     4 4 0
Duquesne     3 3 1
Vermont     3 5 0
NYU     2 5 1
Rhode Island State     0 4 4
Tufts     2 6 0
Rutgers     2 7 0
Buffalo     1 4 0
Colgate     1 5 2
Villanova     1 5 1
Drexel     0 6 0

The 1920 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1920 college football season. They finished with a 6–0–1 record and were retroactively selected as a co-national champion by the Boand System and Parke H. Davis.[1] They outscored their opponents 144 to 23.[2] Bill Roper served in his seventh season as head coach. Keene Fitzpatrick, Frank Glick, and Jack Winn were assistant coaches.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2SwarthmoreW 17–6
October 9Maryland
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 35–0
October 16Washington and Lee
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 34–0
October 23Navy
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 14–0
October 30West Virginia
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 10–37,000[4]
November 6at HarvardT 14–14
November 13Yale
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 20–0

[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 "1920 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  3. ^ Donal Grant Herring (November 24, 1920). "The Princeton Season Reviewed". Princeton Alumni Weekly. pp. 173–176.
  4. ^ "Princeton Rather Fortunate In Defeating West Virginia Mountaineers". The Pittsburg Press. October 31, 1920. p. Sporting 6 – via Newspapers.com.