1891 Princeton Tigers football
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Record12–1
Head coach
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CaptainRalph Warren
Home stadiumUniversity Field
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1891 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   13 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –   13 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   12 – 1 – 0
Tufts   –   7 – 1 – 0
Penn   –   11 – 2 – 0
Colgate   –   4 – 1 – 0
Army   –   4 – 1 – 1
Navy   –   5 – 2 – 0
Cornell   –   7 – 3 – 0
Geneva   –   4 – 2 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   4 – 2 – 0
Lehigh   –   7 – 4 – 0
Delaware   –   5 – 3 – 1
Rutgers   –   8 – 6 – 0
Brown   –   4 – 6 – 0
Springfield YMCA   –   5 – 8 – 1
Fordham   –   1 – 2 – 1
Syracuse   –   4 – 7 – 0
Massachusetts   –   2 – 5 – 0
Western Univ. Penn.   –   2 – 6 – 0
Lafayette   –   2 – 9 – 1
Columbia   –   1 – 5 – 0
Wesleyan   –   1 – 6 – 0

The 1891 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1891 college football season. The team finished with a 12–1 record. The Tigers recorded 12 shutouts and outscored opponents by a combined total of 391 to 0 in their first 12 games.[1] The team's sole loss was in the final game of the season by a 19–0 score against Yale.[2]

Three Princeton players, quarterback Philip King, fullback Sheppard Homans, Jr., and guard Jesse Riggs, were consensus first-team honorees on the 1891 College Football All-America Team.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 3Rutgers
W 12–0[4]
October 8at LehighBethlehem, PAW 18–02,000[5]
October 10at Crescent Athletic Club
W 28–03,000[6]
October 14Lehigh
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 30–0[7]
October 17at Franklin & Marshall
W 44–0> 1,500[8]
October 20at LafayetteEaston, PAW 24–0[9]
October 24New York Athletic Club
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 28–0[10]
October 28Manhattan Athletic Club
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 78–0[11]
October 31vs. Wesleyan
W 73–03,000[12]
November 3at Orange Athletic Club
W 26–03,500[13]
November 7at Penn
W 24–012,000[14][15]
November 14Cornell
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 6–02,000[16]
November 26vs. Yale
  • Manhattan Field
  • New York, NY (rivalry)
L 0–1940,000[17]

References

  1. ^ "1891 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "All-Time Princeton Results" (PDF). goprincetontigers.com. Princeton University. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  3. ^ "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
  4. ^ "Princeton's Poor Showing: Rutgers Makes the Yellow and Black Wearers Play to Win". The Times (Philadelphia). October 4, 1891. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Princeton Defeats Lehigh: Superior Weight Was All That Gave the Jersey College Lads the Game". The Times (Philadelphia). October 9, 1891. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Victory for Princeton: The Crescents Lose Again at Eastern Park". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 11, 1891. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Football at Princeton: The Lehigh Team Defeated by the Score of 30 to 0". The New York Times. October 15, 1891. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Princeton Wins Easily: The College Team Has a Walkover With Franklin and Marshall". The Times (Philadelphia). October 18, 1891. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Princeton, 24; Lafayette, 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 21, 1891. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "New York A. C. Whitewashed: Princeton Scores 28 Points to Athletes' Nothing". The Sun (New York). October 25, 1891. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Princeton's Top Score: They Roll Up 78 Points Against the Manhattan Team". The Times (Philadelphia). October 29, 1891. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Score One for Princeton: She Defeats Wesleyan in a Championship Game". The New York Times. November 1, 1891. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Princeton, 26; Orange, 0". The Sun (New York). November 4, 1891. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Princeton's Game: The Jersey Tiger Wins by a Score of 24 to 0". The Times (Philadelphia). November 8, 1891. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Princeton Vs. U. Of Penn". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 8, 1891. p. 4. Retrieved September 8, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  16. ^ "Princeton Beats Cornell: A Very Close and Exciting Game Between the Two Elevens". The New York Times. November 15, 1891. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ "Yale Still Triumphant: Princeton Beaten on Manhattan Field by a Score of 19 to 0". The Sun (New York). November 27, 1891. pp. 1–2 – via Newspapers.com.
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