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1901 Princeton Tigers football team

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1901 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–1–1
Head coach
CaptainWilliamson Pell
Home stadiumUniversity Field
Seasons
← 1900
1902 →
1901 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard     12 0 0
Yale     11 1 1
Cornell     11 1 0
Dartmouth     10 1 0
Massachusetts     9 1 0
Princeton     9 1 1
Syracuse     7 1 0
Holy Cross     7 1 1
Geneva     6 1 1
Army     5 1 2
Western U. of Penn     7 2 1
Lafayette     9 3 0
Swarthmore     8 2 2
Washington & Jefferson     6 2 2
Frankin & Marshall     7 3 1
Penn     10 5 0
Buffalo     4 2 0
Columbia     8 5 0
Fordham     2 1 1
Penn State     5 3 0
Bucknell     6 4 0
Pittsburgh College     3 2 0
Temple     3 2 0
NYU     4 3 1
Tufts     6 6 1
Vermont     5 5 1
Dickinson     3 4 0
Carlisle     5 7 1
Brown     4 7 1
Villanova     2 3 0
Drexel     2 5 1
Colgate     2 5 0
Boston College     1 8 0
Lehigh     1 11 0
New Hampshire     0 6 0
Rutgers     0 7 0

The 1901 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1901 college football season. The team finished with a 9–1–1 record under first-year head coach Langdon Lea. The Tigers won their first nine games, including eight shutouts, and outscored their opponents by a total of 247 to 24. The team's only loss was in the last game of the season by a 12–0 score against Yale.[1] Princeton end Ralph Tipton Davis was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1901 College Football All-America Team.[2]

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2 VillanovaW 35–0[3]
October 5 Haverford
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 47–0[4]
October 9 NYU
  • University Field
  • Princeton, N
W 23–0[5]
October 12 Lehigh
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 35–0[6]
October 16 Dickinson
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 23–0[7]
October 19 Brown
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 35–0[8]
October 23 Orange Athletic Club
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 29–0[9]
October 26 Lafayette
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 6–03,000[10]
November 2at Cornell
W 8–6[11]
November 9at ArmyT 6–6[12]
November 16at Yale L 0–12> 19,000[13]

References

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  1. ^ "1901 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. ^ "Easy Walkover for the Tigers". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 3, 1901. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Princeton, 47; Haverford, 0". The New York Times. October 6, 1901. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Princeton 23, N.Y. University 0". New York Tribune. October 10, 1901. p. 10. Retrieved February 3, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Princeton, 35; Lehigh, 0". The New York Times. October 13, 1901. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Princeton, 23; Dickinson, 0". The New York Times. October 17, 1901. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Princeton, 35; Brown, 0". New York Daily Tribune. October 20, 1901. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Princeton Smashes Orange Line: Offside Play and Fumbling Accompany Tigers' Victory". New York Daily Tribune. October 24, 1901. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Princeton, 6; Lafayette, 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 27, 1901. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Princeton, 8; Cornell, 6". The New York Times. November 3, 1901. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Soldiers Tie Princeton: Football Game at West Point Ended with Score Six All". The New York Times. November 10, 1901. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Yale and Cornell Winners: Princeton Unable To Score Against Old Eli; Rout of the Tigers". New York Tribune. November 17, 1901. pp. 1–2 – via Newspapers.com.