1895 Princeton Tigers football team

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]

1895 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
1895 record10–1–1
Head coachNone
CaptainLangdon Lea
1895 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Penn   –    14 –0 –0
Yale   –    13 –0 –2
Princeton   –    10 –1 –1
Harvard   –    8 –2 –1
Lafayette   –    6 –2 –0
Syracuse   –    6 –2 –2
Army   –    5 –2 –0
Colgate   –    4 –2 –0
Tufts   –    8 –5 –0
Wesleyan   –    6 –3 –0
Amherst   –    6 –5 –0
Brown   –    7 –6 –1
Carlisle   –    4 –4 –0
Rutgers   –    4 –4 –0
Villanova   –    3 –3 –0
Penn State   –    2 –2 –3
Cornell   –    3 –4 –1
New Hampshire   –    2 –3 –1
Frankin & Marshall   –    3 –5 –1
Boston College   –    2 –4 –2
Lehigh   –    3 –6 –0
CCNY   –    2 –5 –1
Temple   –    1 –4 –1
MIT   –    1 –4 –0
Trinity (CT)   –    1 –4 –0
Massachusetts   –    1 –5 –0
Western Univ. Penn.   –    1 –6 –0

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
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2at Elizabeth Athletic ClubElizabeth, NJW 40–0[3]
October 5RutgersPrinceton, NJ (rivalry)W 22–0[4]
October 9vs. Virginia
W 36–03,000[5]
October 12Lafayette
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 14–0[6]
October 15at Lawrenceville School
W 38–0[7]
October 17Princeton Seminary
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 10–4[8]
October 19vs. Lehigh
W 16–02,000[9]
October 23Union (NY)
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 22–0[10]
October 26at Orange Athletic Club
T 0–03,000[11]
November 2Harvard
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 12–46,000[12]
November 9vs. Cornell
W 6–0[13]
November 23vs. Yale
  • Manhattan Field
  • New York, NY (rivalry)
L 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'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.
  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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