1932 Princeton Tigers football team

1932 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–2–3
Head coach
CaptainF. Tremiane "Josh" Billings Jr.
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
Seasons
← 1931
1933 →
1932 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 5 Colgate   –   9 – 0 – 0
Brown   –   7 – 1 – 0
Columbia   –   7 – 1 – 1
Pittsburgh   –   8 – 1 – 2
No. 8 Army   –   8 – 2 – 0
Drexel   –   5 – 1 – 1
Massachusetts State   –   7 – 2 – 0
Villanova   –   7 – 2 – 0
Duquesne   –   7 – 2 – 1
Fordham   –   6 – 2 – 0
Penn   –   6 – 2 – 0
Temple   –   5 – 1 – 2
Tufts   –   5 – 1 – 2
Cornell   –   5 – 2 – 1
Franklin & Marshall   –   4 – 2 – 1
Boston College   –   4 – 2 – 2
La Salle   –   4 – 2 – 2
Harvard   –   5 – 3 – 0
NYU   –   5 – 3 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   5 – 3 – 1
Manhattan   –   6 – 3 – 2
Carnegie Tech   –   4 – 3 – 2
Bucknell   –   4 – 4 – 1
Syracuse   –   4 – 4 – 1
Princeton   –   2 – 2 – 3
Yale   –   2 – 2 – 3
Boston University   –   2 – 3 – 2
Vermont   –   2 – 4 – 1
CCNY   –   2 – 5 – 0
Penn State   –   2 – 5 – 0
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1932 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1932 college football season. The Tigers finished with a 2–2–3 record under first-year head coach Fritz Crisler.[1] No Princeton players were selected as first-team honorees on the 1932 College Football All-America Team.

Prior to 1932, Crisler was the head football coach at Minnesota. In February 1932, he was signed to a three-year contract with Princeton at an annual salary in excess of $10,000.[2]

Schedule

[edit]
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 1 Amherst
W 22–010,000[3]
October 8at Columbia
L 7–2034,000[4]
October 15 Cornell
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
T 0–025,000[5]
October 22 Navy
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
T 0–040,000[6]
October 29at Michigan
L 7–1426,424[7]
November 5 Lehigh
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 53–015,000[8]
November 12 Yale
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
T 7–755,000[9]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "1932 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "'Fritz' Crisler Signs As 'Tiger' Grid Coach For Three-Year Term". The Courier-News. February 26, 1932. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Princeton Impresses In Routing Amherst: Little Jeffs Bowled Over By Fighting Tigers, 22-0". The Sunday Times (New Brunswick, NJ). October 2, 1932. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Columbia Defeats Princeton, 20-7; Gallant Tiger Team Fights Bravely but Bows to Lions, 20-7". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 9, 1932. pp. C1, C7 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Thomas Holmes (October 16, 1932). "Princeton, Cornell In Scoreless Tie". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. pp. C1, C5 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Navy Battles Princeton to Scoreless Tie: Middies Surprise 40,000 Fans by Completely Outplaying Princeton Eleven". The Shreveport (LA) Times. October 23, 1932. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Tod Rockwell (October 30, 1932). "Michigan Downs Tigers, 14-7: Wolverines Come From Rear to Win". Detroit Free Press. pp. Sports 1, 4, 5.
  8. ^ "Princeton End Lehigh Supremacy". The Portsmouth (OH) Sunday Times. November 6, 1932. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Henry McLemore (November 13, 1932). "Princeton Forward Passes Way to Touchdown in Last 4 Minutes to Tie Yale, 7-7". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. p. 2C – via Newspapers.com.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1932_Princeton_Tigers_football_team&oldid=1170740097"