1895 Princeton Tigers football team

1895 Princeton Tigers football
Conference Independent
1895 record 10–1–1
Head coach No coach
Captain Langdon Lea

The 1895 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1895 college football season. The team finished with a 10–1–1 record. The Tigers recorded nine shutouts and outscored opponents by a combined score of 224 to 28. The team's sole loss was in the last game of the season by a 20-10 score against Yale.[1]

Two Princeton players, tackle Langdon Lea and guard Dudley Riggs, were consensus first-team honorees on the 1895 College Football All-America Team.[2]

Schedule

Date Opponent Location Result Attendance Source
October 2at Elizabeth Athletic ClubElizabeth, NJW 40–0[3]
October 5Rutgers (rivalry)University Field, Princeton, NJW 22–0[4]
October 9vs. VirginiaCatonsville Country Club, BaltimoreW 36–03,000[5]
October 12LafayetteUniversity Field, Princeton, NJW 14–0[6]
October 15at LawrencevilleLawrenceville Grounds, Lawrenceville, NJW 38–0[7]
October 17Princeton SeminaryUniversity Field, Princeton, NJW 10–4[8]
October 19vs. LehighPhiladelphia Ball Park, PhiladelphiaW 16–02,000[9]
October 23UnionUniversity Field, Princeton, NJW 22–0[10]
October 26at Orange Athletic ClubOrange Oval, Orange, NJT 0–03,000[11]
November 2Harvard (rivalry)University Field, Princeton, NJW 12–46,000[12]
November 9vs. CornellManhattan Field, New York, NYW 6–0[13]
November 23vs. Yale (rivalry)Manhattan Field, New York, NYL 10–2035,000[14]

References

  1. ↑ "1895 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
  3. ↑ "In a Slugging Game at Elizabeth: Princeton Tigers Find the Athletic Club Easy to Defeat". Chicago Tribune. October 3, 1895. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Princeton Played Poorly". The Time (Philadelphia). October 6, 1895. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Princeton's Tigers Roast the University of Virginia by 36 to 0 on Catonsville's Gridiron". The Sun (Baltimore). October 10, 1895. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "Princeton, 14; Lafayette, 0: Excellent Defensive Work by the Easton Boys Kept the Score Down". The New York Times. October 13, 1895. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Several Princeton Men Are Hurt: Tigers Have a Sharp and Snappy Game with the Lawrenceville "Preps"". Chicago Tribune. October 16, 1895. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Tigers vs. Seminarians: The Varsity Team Defeats the Princeton Seminarians". Union Leader. October 18, 1895. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Princeton and Lehigh: The Tigers Put Up a Weak Game and Disappointed Their Many Admirers". The Times (Philadelphia). October 20, 1895. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Princeton, 22; Union, 0". The New York Times. October 24, 1895. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ "A Great Game: The Tigers Were Unable to Score Against Orange". The Sunday News Dealer. October 27, 1895. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ "Princeton, 12; Harvard, 4". The New York Times. November 3, 1895. pp. 1–2 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ↑ "Princeton, 6; Cornell, 0". The New York Times. November 10, 1895. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ "Yale Downs the Tiger: Princeton Defeated on Manhattan Field by a Score of 20 to 10". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 24, 1895. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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