1900 Princeton Tigers football team

1900 Princeton Tigers football
Conference Independent
1900 record 8–3
Head coach No coach
Captain Williamson Pell

The 1900 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1900 college football season. The team finished with an 8–3 record. The Tigers won their first eight games by a combined score of 159 to 10, but then lost the last three games of the season against Cornell, Columbia and Yale.[1] No Princeton players received first-team honors on the 1900 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 3 3:30 p.m. Stevens
W 40–0 [2][3]
October 6 Lehigh
  • Osborne Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 12–5 [4][5]
October 10 Penn State Princeton, NJW 26–0 [6][7]
October 12 at Baltimore Medical College
W 11–01,500[8]
October 13 at Navy
W 5–0 [9]
October 17 Syracuse
  • Osborne Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 43–0 [10]
October 20 at Lafayette Easton, PAW 5–04,000[11]
October 27 3:10 p.m.at Brown (rivalry)
W 17–55,000[12]
November 3 2:45 p.m. Cornell Princeton, NJL 0–12 [13]
November 6 2:45 p.m.at Columbia
L 5–610,000[14][15]
November 17 2:45 p.m. Yale
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
L 5–2915,000[16][17]

References

  1. ↑ "1900 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Tiger Ends Do Brilliant Work in First Game: Stevens Beaten 42 to 0 and Little and Roper Are the Stars". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 4, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com. (other sources report score as 40-0)
  3. ↑ "Princeton, 40; Stevens, 0". Daily Princetonian. October 4, 1890. p. 1.
  4. ↑ "Princeton, 12; Lehigh, 5". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 7, 1900. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Tigers Scored on by Lehigh". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 7, 1900. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com. (Osborne Field)
  6. ↑ "Princeton's Strong Game". The New York Times. October 11, 1900. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Princeton, 26; State College, 0". Daily Princetonian. October 11, 1900. p. 1.
  8. ↑ "Princeton by 11 to 0: Thus Results a Vicious Battle Against Baltimore Meds". The Sun (Baltimore). October 13, 1900. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Princeton, 5; Annapolis, 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 14, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Tigers Show Improvement". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 18, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ "Tigers Beat Lafayette: Princeton Wins a Hard Fight by a Score of 5 to 0". The Inter Ocean. October 21, 1900. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ "Princeton, 17; Brown, 5". New York Tribune. October 28, 1900. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ↑ "Cornell Beat Princeton". The New York Times. November 4, 1900. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ "Columbia Is Victorious". The New York Times. November 7, 1900. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ↑ "Columbia Beat Tigers in Closely Fought Game". The Philadelphia Times. November 7, 1900. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ↑ "Yale Buries Princeton: Sons of Eli Score 29 to 5 by the Tigers". The New York Times. November 18, 1900. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ↑ "Eli Crushes the Tigers in a One-Sided Game". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 18, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com. (attendance estimate of 15,000; kickoff at 2:45)
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