1926 Princeton Tigers football team

1926 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–1–1
Head coach
CaptainJohn Davis
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
Seasons
← 1925
1927 →
1926 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 5 Lafayette     9 0 0
No. 10 Brown     9 0 1
NYU     8 1 0
No. 9 Army     7 1 1
Washington & Jefferson     7 1 1
Boston College     6 0 2
No. 10 Penn     7 1 1
Cornell     6 1 1
Princeton     5 1 1
Carnegie Tech     7 2 0
Springfield     6 2 0
Syracuse     7 2 1
Villanova     6 2 1
Colgate     5 2 2
Columbia     6 3 0
Pittsburgh     5 2 2
CCNY     5 3 0
Temple     5 3 0
Penn State     5 4 0
Tufts     4 4 0
Yale     4 4 0
Bucknell     4 5 1
Fordham     3 4 1
Harvard     3 5 0
Rutgers     3 6 0
Vermont     3 6 0
Drexel     2 5 0
Boston University     2 6 0
Lehigh     1 8 0
Franklin & Marshall     0 8 1
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1926 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1926 college football season. The team finished with a 5–1–1 record under 13th-year head coach Bill Roper. The Tigers' sole loss of the season was to Navy by a 27–13 score.[1] No Princeton players were selected as first-team honorees on the 1926 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2 AmherstW 14–7
October 9 Washington and Lee
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
T 7–7 [2]
October 16 Navy
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
L 13–27 [3]
October 23 Lehigh
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 7–6 [4]
October 30 Swarthmore
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 27–0
November 6at Harvard W 12–055,000[5]
November 13 Yale
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 10–755,000[6]

References

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  1. ^ "1926 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "Washington and Lee draws with Princeton". Allentown Morning Call. October 10, 1926. Retrieved December 9, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ W. O. McGeehan (October 17, 1926). "Navy Team Beats Princeton: Middies Make Strong Finish". The Baltimore Sun. pp. Sports 1, 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Princeton Tigers Pressed To Defeat Lehigh, 7-6". New York Daily News. October 24, 1926. p. 43 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Tigers Triumph Over Harvard in First "Big 3" Football Game: Harvard's Hopes Are Higher Than Ability as Princeton Sweeps on to 12-0 Victory". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 7, 1926. pp. C1, C2 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ William J. Lee (November 14, 1926). "Princeton Trounces Yale, 10-7: 55,000 People See Game That Decides Possible Final Championship of Famous 'Big Three'". The Hartford Courant. pp. I-1, IV-1 – via Newspapers.com.