1895 Princeton Tigers football team

1895 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record10–1–1
Head coach
  • None
CaptainLangdon Lea
Seasons
← 1894
1896 →
1895 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn     14 0 0
Yale     13 0 2
Princeton     10 1 1
Washington & Jefferson     6 1 1
Harvard     8 2 1
Lafayette     6 2 0
Syracuse     6 2 2
Army     5 2 0
Bucknell     5 2 0
Colgate     4 2 0
Swarthmore     7 4 1
Tufts     8 5 0
Villanova     4 2 0
Wesleyan     6 3 0
Amherst     6 5 0
Brown     7 6 1
Carlisle     4 4 0
Drexel     3 3 1
Penn State     2 2 3
Cornell     3 4 1
Rutgers     3 4 0
New Hampshire     2 3 1
Frankin & Marshall     3 5 1
Boston College     2 4 2
Lehigh     3 6 0
CCNY     2 5 1
Buffalo     1 4 2
Temple     1 4 1
MIT     1 4 0
Trinity (CT)     1 4 0
Massachusetts     1 5 0
Western Univ. Penn.     1 6 0
Geneva     0 5 0

The 1895 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1895 college football season. The team finished with a 10–1–1 record. The Tigers recorded nine shutouts and outscored opponents by a combined score of 224 to 28. The team's sole loss was in the last game of the season by a 20–10 score against Yale.[1]

Two Princeton players, tackle Langdon Lea and guard Dudley Riggs, were consensus first-team honorees on the 1895 College Football All-America Team.[2]

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2at Elizabeth Athletic ClubElizabeth, NJW 40–0[3]
October 5RutgersW 22–0[4]
October 9vs. Virginia
W 36–03,000[5]
October 12Lafayette
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 14–0[6]
October 15at Lawrenceville School
W 38–0[7]
October 17Princeton Seminary
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 10–4[8]
October 19vs. LehighW 16–02,000[9]
October 23Union (NY)
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 22–0[10]
October 26at Orange Athletic ClubT 0–03,000[11]
November 2Harvard
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 12–46,000[12]
November 9vs. CornellW 6–0[13]
November 23vs. Yale
  • Manhattan Field
  • New York, NY (rivalry)
L 10–2035,000[14]

References

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  1. ^ "1895 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. ^ "In a Slugging Game at Elizabeth: Princeton Tigers Find the Athletic Club Easy to Defeat". Chicago Tribune. October 3, 1895. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Princeton's Tigers Roast the University of Virginia by 36 to 0 on Catonsville's Gridiron". The Sun (Baltimore). October 10, 1895. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Princeton's Tigers Roast the University of Virginia by 36 to 0 on Catonsville's Gridiron". The Sun (Baltimore). October 10, 1895. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Princeton, 14; Lafayette, 0: Excellent Defensive Work by the Easton Boys Kept the Score Down". The New York Times. October 13, 1895. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Several Princeton Men Are Hurt: Tigers Have a Sharp and Snappy Game with the Lawrenceville "Preps"". Chicago Tribune. October 16, 1895. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Tigers vs. Seminarians: The Varsity Team Defeats the Princeton Seminarians". Union Leader. October 18, 1895. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Princeton and Lehigh: The Tigers Put Up a Weak Game and Disappointed Their Many Admirers". The Times (Philadelphia). October 20, 1895. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Princeton, 22; Union, 0". The New York Times. October 24, 1895. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "A Great Game: The Tigers Were Unable to Score Against Orange". The Sunday News Dealer. October 27, 1895. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Princeton, 12; Harvard, 4". The New York Times. November 3, 1895. pp. 1–2 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Princeton, 6; Cornell, 0". The New York Times. November 10, 1895. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Yale Downs the Tiger: Princeton Defeated on Manhattan Field by a Score of 20 to 10". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 24, 1895. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.