1922 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1922 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1922 college football season. The team finished with an 8–0 record and was retroactively named as the 1922 national champion by the Boand System and College Football Researchers Association, and as a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation, Parke H. Davis, and Jeff Sagarin (using the ELO-Chess methodology).[1] They outscored their opponents 127 to 34.[2]

1922 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Boand, CFRA)
Co-national champion (NCF, Davis, Sagarin-ELO)
ConferenceIndependent
1922 record8–0
Head coachBill Roper (9th season)
Offensive schemeShort punt
CaptainMel Dickenson
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
Uniform
1922 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Cornell      8 0 0
Princeton      8 0 0
Army      8 0 2
Syracuse      6 1 2
Franklin & Marshall      8 2 0
Pittsburgh      8 2 0
Harvard      7 2 0
Lafayette      7 2 0
Boston College      6 2 1
Brown      6 2 1
Colgate      6 3 0
Dartmouth      6 3 0
Penn      6 3 0
Yale      6 3 1
Penn State      6 4 1
Carnegie Tech      5 3 1
Villanova      5 3 1
Columbia      5 4 0
Rutgers      5 4 0
Tufts      5 4 0
Rhode Island State      4 4 0
NYU      4 5 0
Fordham      3 5 2
Geneva      4 6 0
Lehigh      3 5 1
New Hampshire      3 5 1
Drexel      2 4 0
Temple      1 4 1
Duquesne      0 8 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendance
September 30Johns HopkinsW 30–0
October 7Virginia
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 5–0
October 14Colgate
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 10–0
October 21Maryland
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 26–0
October 28at ChicagoW 21–1831,000
November 4Swarthmore
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 22–13
November 11at HarvardW 10–3
November 18Yale
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 3–0

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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 8, 2016.
  2. "1922 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
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