1900 Princeton Tigers football team

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1900 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–3
Head coach
  • None
CaptainWilliamson Pell
Home stadiumOsborne Field
Seasons
← 1899
1901 →
1900 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   12 – 0 – 0
Penn   –   12 – 1 – 0
Harvard   –   10 – 1 – 0
Cornell   –   10 – 2 – 0
Geneva   –   5 – 1 – 1
Lafayette   –   9 – 2 – 0
Syracuse   –   7 – 2 – 1
Princeton   –   8 – 3 – 0
Drexel   –   5 – 2 – 0
Fordham   –   3 – 1 – 1
Army   –   7 – 3 – 1
Brown   –   7 – 3 – 1
Columbia   –   7 – 3 – 1
Villanova   –   5 – 2 – 2
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 3 – 1
Swarthmore   –   6 – 3 – 2
Holy Cross   –   5 – 3 – 1
Carlisle   –   6 – 4 – 1
Buffalo   –   3 – 2 – 2
Dickinson   –   5 – 4 – 0
Western Univ. of Penn   –   5 – 4 – 0
Bucknell   –   4 – 4 – 1
Pittsburgh College   –   3 – 3 – 1
Rutgers   –   4 – 4 – 0
Vermont   –   4 – 4 – 1
Lehigh   –   5 – 6 – 0
Frankin & Marshall   –   4 – 5 – 0
Temple   –   3 – 4 – 1
Penn State   –   4 – 6 – 1
Amherst   –   4 – 7 – 1
Dartmouth   –   2 – 4 – 2
NYU   –   3 – 6 – 1
Tufts   –   3 – 6 – 1
Wesleyan   –   3 – 6 – 1
New Hampshire   –   1 – 5 – 1
Colgate   –   2 – 8 – 0
CCNY   –   0 – 1 – 0

The 1900 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1900 college football season. The team finished with an 8–3 record. The Tigers won their first eight games by a combined score of 159 to 10, but then lost the last three games of the season against Cornell, Columbia and Yale.[1] No Princeton players received first-team honors on the 1900 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule[edit]

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 33:30 p.m.Stevens
W 40–0[2][3]
October 6Lehigh
  • Osborne Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 12–5[4][5]
October 10Penn StatePrinceton, NJW 26–0[6][7]
October 12at Baltimore Medical College
W 11–01,500[8]
October 13at Navy
W 5–0[9]
October 17Syracuse
  • Osborne Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 43–0[10]
October 20at LafayetteEaston, PAW 5–04,000[11]
October 273:10 p.m.at Brown
W 17–55,000[12]
November 32:45 p.m.CornellPrinceton, NJL 0–12[13]
November 62:45 p.m.at Columbia
L 5–610,000[14][15]
November 172:45 p.m.Yale
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
L 5–2915,000[16][17][18]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "1900 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "Tiger Ends Do Brilliant Work in First Game: Stevens Beaten 42 to 0 and Little and Roper Are the Stars". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 4, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.(other sources report score as 40-0)
  3. ^ "Princeton, 40; Stevens, 0". Daily Princetonian. October 4, 1890. p. 1.
  4. ^ "Princeton, 12; Lehigh, 5". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 7, 1900. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Tigers Scored on by Lehigh". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 7, 1900. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.(Osborne Field)
  6. ^ "Princeton's Strong Game". The New York Times. October 11, 1900. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Princeton, 26; State College, 0". Daily Princetonian. October 11, 1900. p. 1.
  8. ^ "Princeton by 11 to 0: Thus Results a Vicious Battle Against Baltimore Meds". The Sun (Baltimore). October 13, 1900. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Princeton, 5; Annapolis, 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 14, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Tigers Show Improvement". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 18, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Tigers Beat Lafayette: Princeton Wins a Hard Fight by a Score of 5 to 0". The Inter Ocean. October 21, 1900. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Princeton, 17; Brown, 5". New York Tribune. October 28, 1900. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Cornell Beat Princeton". The New York Times. November 4, 1900. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Columbia Is Victorious". The New York Times. November 7, 1900. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Columbia Beat Tigers in Closely Fought Game". The Philadelphia Times. November 7, 1900. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Yale Scores 29, Princeton 5". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 18, 1900. pp. 1, 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ "Yale Buries Princeton: Sons of Eli Score 29 to 5 by the Tigers". The New York Times. November 18, 1900. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "Eli Crushes the Tigers in a One-Sided Game". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 18, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
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