1912 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1912 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1912 college football season. The team finished with a 7–1–1 record under first-year head coach Walter G. Andrews, outscoring opponents by a total of 322 to 35 with the sole loss being to Harvard by 16–6 score.[1] Princeton W. John Logan was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1912 College Football All-America Team,[2] and five other players (halfback Hobey Baker, fullback Wallace "Butch" De Witt, guard Rip Shenk, and tackles Phillips and Penfield) were selected as first-team honorees by at least one selector.

1912 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
1912 record7–1–1
Head coachLogan Cunningham (1st season)
CaptainTal Pendleton
Home stadiumUniversity Field
1912 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Harvard      9 0 0
Penn State      8 0 0
Carlisle      12 1 1
Princeton      7 1 1
Yale      7 1 1
Lehigh      9 2 0
Dartmouth      7 2 0
Wesleyan      7 2 0
Colgate      5 2 0
Wash. & Jeff.      8 3 1
Rhode Island State      6 3 0
Temple      3 2 0
Penn      7 4 0
Army      5 3 0
Brown      6 4 0
Franklin & Marshall      6 4 0
Rutgers      5 4 0
Tufts      5 4 0
Fordham      4 4 0
Villanova      3 3 0
Morris Harvey      2 2 0
Lafayette      4 5 1
Syracuse      4 5 0
Carnegie Tech      3 4 1
Geneva      3 4 0
Pittsburgh      3 6 0
Boston College      2 4 1
Cornell      3 7 0
NYU      2 6 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 28 StevensW 65–0
October 2 Rutgers
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 41–6
October 5 Lehigh
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 35–0
October 12 VPI
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 31–0
October 19 Syracuse
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 62–0
October 26 Dartmouth
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 22–7
November 2at Harvard L 6–16
November 9 NYU
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 54–0
November 16 Yale
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
T 6–6

References

  1. "1912 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
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