1920 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1920 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1920 college football season. They finished with a 6–0–1 record and were retroactively selected as a co-national champion by the Boand System and Parke H. Davis.[1] They outscored their opponents 144 to 23.[2] Bill Roper served in his seventh season as head coach. Keene Fitzpatrick, Frank Glick, and Jack Winn were assistant coaches.[3]

1920 Princeton Tigers football
Co-national champion (Boand, Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
1920 record6–0–1
Head coachBill Roper (7th season)
Offensive schemeShort punt
CaptainHenry Callahan
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
Uniform
1920 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Boston College      8 0 0
Harvard      8 0 1
Princeton      6 0 1
Penn State      7 0 2
Pittsburgh      6 0 2
Army      7 2 0
Dartmouth      7 2 0
Cornell      6 2 0
Syracuse      6 2 1
Geneva      5 2 1
New Hampshire      5 2 1
Brown      6 3 0
Wash. & Jeff.      6 3 1
Penn      6 4 0
Carnegie Tech      5 3 0
Lafayette      5 3 0
Williams      5 3 0
Yale      5 3 0
Fordham      4 3 0
Franklin & Marshall      3 2 2
Columbia      4 4 0
Duquesne      3 3 1
NYU      2 5 1
Rhode Island State      0 4 4
Tufts      2 6 0
Rutgers      2 7 0
Colgate      1 5 2
Villanova      1 5 1
Drexel      0 6 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2SwarthmoreW 17–6
October 9Maryland
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 35–0
October 16Washington and Lee
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 34–0
October 23Navy
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 14–0
October 30West Virginia
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 10–37,000[4]
November 6at HarvardT 14–14
November 13Yale
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 20–0

[2]

References

  1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
  2. "1920 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  3. Donal Grant Herring (November 24, 1920). "The Princeton Season Reviewed". Princeton Alumni Weekly. pp. 173–176.
  4. "Princeton Rather Fortunate In Defeating West Virginia Mountaineers". The Pittsburg Press. October 31, 1920. p. Sporting 6 via Newspapers.com.
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