1915 Princeton Tigers football team

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1915 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–2
Head coach
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
Seasons
← 1914
1916 →
1915 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Cornell     9 0 0
Pittsburgh     8 0 0
Columbia     5 0 0
Harvard     8 1 0
Carnegie Tech     7 1 0
Rutgers     7 1 0
Villanova     6 1 0
Washington & Jefferson     8 1 1
Colgate     5 1 0
Syracuse     9 1 2
Dartmouth     7 1 1
Tufts     5 1 2
Penn State     7 2 0
Lafayette     8 3 0
Princeton     6 2 0
Franklin & Marshall     6 2 0
Temple     3 1 1
Geneva     6 3 0
Wesleyan     6 3 0
Allegheny     5 3 0
Swarthmore     5 3 0
Army     5 3 1
Lehigh     6 4 0
Holy Cross     3 2 2
Brown     5 4 1
Fordham     4 4 0
NYU     4 4 1
Middlebury     3 4 2
Muhlenberg     4 5 0
Yale     4 5 0
Boston College     3 4 0
Penn     3 5 2
WPI     3 5 1
Buffalo     3 5 0
Carlisle     3 6 2
Rhode Island State     3 5 0
New Hampshire     3 6 1
Gettysburg     3 6 0
Rochester     3 6 0
Bucknell     2 6 3
Vermont     1 4 2
Williams     1 7 0

The 1915 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1915 college football season. The team finished with a 6–2 record under first-year head coach John H. Rush.[1] No Princeton players were selected as consensus first-team honorees on the 1915 College Football All-America Team,[2] but three players (halfback Dave Tibbott, fullback Edward H. Driggs, and end Jack "Red" Lamberton) were selected as first-team honorees by at least one selector.

Schedule[edit]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25 GeorgetownW 13–0
October 2 Rutgers
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 10–0
October 9 Syracuse
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 3–05,000
October 16 Lafayette
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 40–3
October 23 Dartmouth
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 30–7
October 30 Williams
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 27–0
November 6 Harvard
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
L 6–10
November 13at Yale L 7–1365,000[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "1915 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. ^ "Yale, Roused, Beats Tigers by 13 to 7". New York Tribune. November 14, 1915. pp. 1, 11 – via Newspapers.com.