1906 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1906 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1906 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0–1 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and National Championship Foundation.[1][2] They outscored their opponents 205 to 9.[2]

1906 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Helms, NCF)
ConferenceIndependent
1906 record9–0–1
Head coachBill Roper (1st season)
Offensive schemeShort punt
CaptainHerb Dillon
1906 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Princeton      9 0 1
Yale      9 0 1
Harvard      10 1 0
Cornell      8 1 2
Lafayette      8 1 1
Penn State      8 1 1
Washington & Jefferson      9 2 0
Swarthmore      7 2 0
Tufts      6 2 0
Penn      7 2 3
Carlisle      9 3 0
Brown      6 3 0
Rutgers      5 2 2
Dartmouth      6 3 1
Syracuse      6 3 0
Colgate      4 2 2
Fordham      5 3 0
Western U. of Penn.      6 4 0
Drexel      3 2 1
Holy Cross      4 3 1
Amherst      3 3 1
Lehigh      5 5 1
Carnegie Tech      2 3 2
Army      3 5 1
Frankin & Marshall      3 5 1
Wesleyan      2 4 1
New Hampshire      2 5 1
Villanova      3 7 0
NYU      0 4 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 29VillanovaPrinceton, NJW 24–0
October 3StevensPrinceton, NJW 22–0
October 6Washington & JeffersonPrinceton, NJW 6–0
October 10LehighPrinceton, NJW 52–0
October 13at NavyW 5–0
October 20BucknellPrinceton, NJW 32–4
October 27vs. CornellW 14–5
November 3DartmouthPrinceton, NJW 42–0
November 10at ArmyW 8–0
November 17YalePrinceton, NJ (rivalry)T 0–0

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References

  1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. "1906 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
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