1950 Princeton Tigers football team

1950 Princeton Tigers football
National Champions^[1] Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy
Conference	Ivy League
Ranking
Coaches	#6
AP	#6
1950 record	9–0 (5–0 Ivy League)
Head coach	Charlie Caldwell
Offensive scheme	Unbalanced single-wing
Home stadium	Palmer Stadium

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

Date	Opponent^#	Rank^#	Site	Result
September 30, 1950	Williams		Palmer Stadium • Princeton, New Jersey	W 66–0
October 7, 1950	Rutgers		Palmer Stadium • Princeton, New Jersey	W 34–28
October 14, 1950	Navy		Palmer Stadium • Princeton, New Jersey	W 20–14
October 21, 1950	at Brown		Brown Stadium • Providence, Rhode Island	W 34–0
October 28, 1950	Cornell		Palmer Stadium • Princeton, New Jersey	W 27–0
November 4, 1950	#10 Colgate		Palmer Stadium • Princeton, New Jersey	W 45–7
November 11, 1950	Harvard	#8	Palmer Stadium • Princeton, New Jersey	W 63–26
November 18, 1950	Yale	#7	Yale Bowl • New Haven, Connecticut	W 47–12
November 25, 1950	Dartmouth	#7	Palmer Stadium • Princeton, New Jersey	W 13–7
*Non-conference game. Homecoming.

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.

Princeton Tigers football

Venues	University Field (1876–1913) Palmer Stadium (1914–1996) Princeton University Stadium (1997–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Legacy Bowl Harvard Penn Yale

Culture & lore	First American football game (painting) 1922 Chicago game The Tiger "Princeton Cannon Song" Winged football helmet

People	Head coaches NFL draftees

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