1901 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1901 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1901 college football season. The team finished with a 9–1–1 record under first-year head coach Langdon Lea. The Tigers won their first nine games, including eight shutouts, and outscored their opponents by a total of 247 to 24. The team's only loss was in the last game of the season by a 12–0 score against Yale.[1] Princeton end Ralph Tipton Davis was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1901 College Football All-America Team.[2]

1901 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
1901 record9–1–1
Head coachLangdon Lea (1st season)
CaptainWilliamson Pell
Home stadiumUniversity Field
1901 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Harvard   –    12 –0 –0
Yale   –    11 –1 –1
Cornell   –    11 –1 –0
Dartmouth   –    10 –1 –0
Massachusetts   –    9 –1 –0
Princeton   –    9 –1 –1
Syracuse   –    7 –1 –0
Holy Cross   –    7 –1 –1
Geneva   –    6 –1 –1
Army   –    5 –1 –2
Western U. of Penn   –    7 –2 –1
Washington & Jefferson   –    6 –2 –1
Lafayette   –    9 –3 –0
Frankin & Marshall   –    7 –3 –1
Penn   –    10 –5 –0
Buffalo   –    4 –2 –0
Columbia   –    8 –5 –0
Fordham   –    2 –1 –1
Penn State   –    5 –3 –0
Bucknell   –    6 –4 –0
Temple   –    3 –2 –0
NYU   –    4 –3 –1
Tufts   –    6 –6 –1
Vermont   –    5 –5 –1
Dickinson   –    3 –4 –0
Carlisle   –    5 –7 –1
Amherst   –    4 –6 –2
Brown   –    4 –7 –1
Villanova   –    2 –3 –0
Wesleyan   –    3 –6 –1
Duquesne   –    1 –2 –0
Colgate   –    2 –5 –0
Boston College   –    1 –8 –0
Lehigh   –    1 –11 –0
New Hampshire   –    0 –6 –0
Rutgers   –    0 –7 –0

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2 Villanova
W 35–0[3]
October 5 Haverford
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 47–0[4]
October NYU
  • University Field
  • Princeton, N
W 23–0
October 12 Lehigh
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 35–0[5]
October 16 Dickinson
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 23–0[6]
October 19 Brown
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 35–0[7]
October 23 Orange Athletic Club
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 29–0[8]
October 26 Lafayette
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 6–03,000[9]
November 2at Cornell
W 8–6[10]
November 9at Army
T 6–6[11]
November 16at Yale
L 0–12> 19,000[12]

References
  1. "1901 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. "Easy Walkover for the Tigers". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 3, 1901. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Princeton, 47; Haverford, 0". The New York Times. October 6, 1901. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Princeton, 35; Lehigh, 0". The New York Times. October 13, 1901. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Princeton, 23; Dickinson, 0". The New York Times. October 17, 1901. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Princeton, 35; Brown, 0". New York Daily Tribune. October 20, 1901. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Princeton Smashes Orange Line: Offside Play and Fumbling Accompany Tigers' Victory". New York Daily Tribune. October 24, 1901. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Princeton, 6; Lafayette, 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 27, 1901. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Princeton, 8; Cornell, 6". The New York Times. November 3, 1901. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Soldiers Tie Princeton: Football Game at West Point Ended with Score Six All". The New York Times. November 10, 1901. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Yale and Cornell Winners: Princeton Unable To Score Against Old Eli; Rout of the Tigers". New York Tribune. November 17, 1901. pp. 1–2 – via Newspapers.com.
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