1891 Princeton Tigers football team

1891 Princeton Tigers football
Conference Independent
1891 record 12–1
Head coach No coach
Captain Ralph Warren
1891 college football records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Yale   –    13 –0 –0
Harvard   –    13 –1 –0
Princeton   –    12 –1 –0
Trinity   –    3 –0 –0
Wake Forest   –    1 –0 –0
Penn   –    11 –2 –0
Illinois   –    5 –1 –0
Colgate   –    4 –1 –0
Army   –    4 –1 –1
Stanford   –    3 –1 –0
Vanderbilt   –    3 –1 –0
Wisconsin   –    3 –1 –1
Navy   –    5 –2 –0
Cornell   –    7 –3 –0
Rutgers   –    8 –6 –0
Geneva   –    4 –2 –0
Washington & Jefferson   –    4 –2 –0
Virginia   –    2 –1 –2
Delaware   –    5 –3 –1
Dartmouth   –    2 –2 –1
Washington   –    1 –1 –0
Doane   –    1 –2 –0
Sewanee   –    1 –2 –0
USC   –    1 –2 –0
Michigan   –    4 –5 –0
Ohio State   –    2 –3 –0
Colorado   –    1 –4 –0
Columbia   –    1 –5 –0
Indiana   –    1 –5 –0
California   –    0 –1 –0
Central   –    0 –1 –0
Furman   –    0 –1 –0
West Virginia   –    0 –1 –0
North Carolina   –    0 –2 –0

The 1891 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1891 college football season. The team finished with a 12–1 record. The Tigers recorded 12 shutouts and outscored opponents by a combined total of 391 to 0 in their first 12 games.[1] The team's sole loss was in the final game of the season by a 19–0 score against Yale.[2]

Three Princeton players, quarterback Philip King, fullback Sheppard Homans, Jr., and guard Jesse Riggs, were consensus first-team honorees on the 1891 College Football All-America Team.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 3Rutgers
W 12–0[4]
October 8at LehighBethlehem, PAW 18–02,000[5]
October 10at Crescent Athletic Club
W 28–03,000[6]
October 14Lehigh
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 30–0[7]
October 17at Franklin & Marshall
W 44–0> 1,500[8]
October 20at LafayetteEaston, PAW 24–0[9]
October 24New York Athletic Club
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 28–0[10]
October 28Manhattan Athletic Club
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 78–0[11]
October 31vs. Wesleyan
  • Manhattan Field
  • New York, NY
W 73–03,000[12]
November 3at Orange Athletic Club
W 26–03,500[13]
November 7at PennPhiladelphiaW 24–04,000[14]
November 14Cornell
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 6–02,000[15]
November 26vs. Yale
L 0–1940,000[16]

References

  1. ↑ "1891 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ "All-Time Princeton Results" (PDF). goprincetontigers.com. Princeton University. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
  4. ↑ "Princeton's Poor Showing: Rutgers Makes the Yellow and Black Wearers Play to Win". The Times (Philadelphia). October 4, 1891. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Princeton Defeats Lehigh: Superior Weight Was All That Gave the Jersey College Lads the Game". The Times (Philadelphia). October 9, 1891. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "Victory for Princeton: The Crescents Lose Again at Eastern Park". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 11, 1891. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Football at Princeton: The Lehigh Team Defeated by the Score of 30 to 0". The New York Times. October 15, 1891. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Princeton Wins Easily: The College Team Has a Walkover With Franklin and Marshall". The Times (Philadelphia). October 18, 1891. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Princeton, 24; Lafayette, 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 21, 1891. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "New York A. C. Whitewashed: Princeton Scores 28 Points to Athletes' Nothing". The Sun (New York). October 25, 1891. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ "Princeton's Top Score: They Roll Up 78 Points Against the Manhattan Team". The Times (Philadelphia). October 29, 1891. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ "Score One for Princeton: She Defeats Wesleyan in a Championship Game". The New York Times. November 1, 1891. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ↑ "Princeton, 26; Orange, 0". The Sun (New York). November 4, 1891. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ "Princeton's Game: The Jersey Tiger Wins by a Score of 24 to 0". The Times (Philadelphia). November 8, 1891. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ↑ "Princeton Beats Cornell: A Very Close and Exciting Game Between the Two Elevens". The New York Times. November 15, 1891. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ↑ "Yale Still Triumphant: Princeton Beaten on Manhattan Field by a Score of 19 to 0". The Sun (New York). November 27, 1891. pp. 1–2 – via Newspapers.com.
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