1926 Princeton Tigers football team

1926 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–1–1
Head coach
CaptainJohn Davis
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
Seasons
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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 Amherst
W 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.
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