1896 Princeton Tigers football team

1896 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate)
Co-national champion (NCF, Davis)
Conference Independent
1896 record 10–0–1
Head coach Franklin Morse
Captain Garrett Cochran

The 1896 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1896 college football season. The team finished with a 10–0–1 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, and Houlgate System, and as a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis.[1][2] They outscored their opponents 299 to 12.[2]

Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result
October 3 Rutgers Princeton, NJ W 44–0  
October 7 at Lafayette March Field • Easton, PA T 0–0  
October 10 Lehigh Princeton, NJ W 16–0  
October 14 Carlisle Princeton, NJ W 22–6  
October 17 at Army West Point, NY W 11–0  
October 21 Virginia Princeton, NJ W 48–0  
October 24 Penn State Princeton, NJ W 39–0  
October 28 Lawrenceville School ? W 46–0  
October 31 Cornell Princeton, NJ W 37–0  
November 7 at Harvard Cambridge, MA W 12–0  
November 21 vs. Yale New York, NY W 24–6  
*Non-conference game.

References

  1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. 1 2 1896 Princeton University football scores and results. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 16, 2013.
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