1950 Princeton Tigers football team
1950 Princeton Tigers football | |
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Conference | Independent |
Ranking | |
Coaches | No. 8 |
AP | No. 6 |
1950 record | 9–0 |
Head coach | Charlie Caldwell (6th season) |
Offensive scheme | Unbalanced single-wing |
Captain | George A. Chandler |
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 future Ivy League teams, Princeton compiled a 5–0 record.[4]
Some selectors named Princeton the national champions, most notably the NCAA-recognized Poling System and Boand System.[5] Princeton was the sixth-ranked sixth in the Associated Press and eighth in the 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 | |||||
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September 30 | Williams | Palmer Stadium • Princeton, NJ | W 66–0 | ||||||
October 7 | Rutgers | Palmer Stadium • Princeton, NJ (rivalry) | W 34–28 | ||||||
October 14 | Navy | Palmer Stadium • Princeton, NJ | W 20–14 | ||||||
October 21 | at Brown | Brown Stadium • Providence, RI (rivalry) | W 34–0 | ||||||
October 28 | No. 10 Cornell | Palmer Stadium • Princeton, NJ | W 27–0 | ||||||
November 4 | Colgate | No. 10 | Palmer Stadium • Princeton, NJ | W 45–7 | |||||
November 11 | Harvard | No. 8 | Palmer Stadium • Princeton, NJ (rivalry) | W 63–26 | |||||
November 18 | at Yale | No. 7 | Yale Bowl • New Haven, CT (rivalry) | W 47–12 | |||||
November 25 | Dartmouth | No. 7 | Palmer Stadium • Princeton, NJ | W 13–7 | |||||
#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. |
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 Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
- ↑ "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 Archived 2007-07-17 at WebCite, College Football Hall of Fame, National Football Foundation, retrieved 30 April 2010.
- ↑ Hollie Donan Archived 2011-06-10 at the Wayback Machine., College Football Hall of Fame, National Football Foundation, retrieved 30 April 2010.