1894 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Houlgate)
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–2
Head coach
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CaptainThomas Trenchard
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Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   16 – 0 – 0
Penn   –   12 – 0 – 0
Villanova   –   1 – 0 – 0
Penn State   –   6 – 0 – 1
Harvard   –   11 – 2 – 0
Geneva   –   5 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   8 – 2 – 0
Temple   –   4 – 1 – 0
Holy Ghost College   –   7 – 2 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   5 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   10 – 5 – 0
Bucknell   –   5 – 3 – 0
Colgate   –   2 – 1 – 1
Army   –   3 – 2 – 0
Frankin & Marshall   –   6 – 4 – 0
Cornell   –   6 – 4 – 1
Amherst   –   7 – 5 – 0
Trinity (CT)   –   4 – 3 – 0
Syracuse   –   6 – 5 – 0
Tufts   –   6 – 5 – 0
Massachusetts   –   3 – 3 – 0
Swarthmore   –   5 – 5 – 0
Western Univ. Penn   –   1 – 1 – 0
Lafayette   –   5 – 6 – 0
New Hampshire   –   2 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   4 – 6 – 0
Lehigh   –   5 – 9 – 0
Williams   –   1 – 3 – 0
Drexel   –   1 – 3 – 0
MIT   –   1 – 4 – 0
Boston College   –   1 – 6 – 0
Carlisle   –   1 – 8 – 0
Buffalo   –   0 – 2 – 0
NYU   –   0 – 3 – 0
Wesleyan   –   0 – 5 – 0

The 1894 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Princeton University as an independent during the 1894 college football season. The team compiled an 8–2 record, shut out six of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 208 to 44.[1] Thomas Trenchard was the team captain.

There was no contemporaneous system in 1894 for determining a national champion. However, Princeton was retroactively named as the national champion by one selector, the Houlgate System. Most of the other selectors chose Yale (16–0 record) as the national champion for 1894.[2] Yale also defeated Princeton in head-to-head competition.

Two Princeton players, tackle Langdon Lea and guard Art Wheeler, were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1894 All-America team.[3] Lea and Wheeler were both later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.[4][5]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29LafayettePrinceton, NJW 40–03,000[6]
October 6at LehighSouth Bethlehem, PAW 8–0[7]
October 10RutgersPrinceton, NJ (rivalry)W 48–0[8]
October 152:00 p.m.vs. Virginia
W 12–0[9][10]
October 20vs. Cornell
W 12–45,000[11]
October 24LehighPrinceton, NJW 32–0900[12]
October 27Volunteer (NY) Athletic AssociationPrinceton, NJW 34–0[13][14]
November 10vs. Penn
L 0–12[15]
November 21at Orange Athletic Club
W 16–4[16]
December 12:08 p.m.vs. Yale
L 0–2420,000–30,000[17][18][19][20]

References

  1. ^ "1894 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  3. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. ^ "Langdon "Biffy" Lea". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 25, 2022.
  5. ^ "Art Wheeler". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 25, 2022.
  6. ^ "Princeton, 40; Lafayette, 0". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. September 30, 1894. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Princeton 8, Lehigh 0". The Boston Globe. October 7, 1894. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Princeton Scores Heavily". The Times. October 11, 1894. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Ready For Tackling". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, MD. October 15, 1894. p. 8. Retrieved September 14, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  10. ^ "Study Young Kickers". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, MD. October 16, 1894. p. 8. Retrieved September 14, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  11. ^ "The Princetons Won: The Cornell Team Put Up a Good Game, but Were Outplayed; The Score 12 to 4". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. October 21, 1894. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Princeton 32, Lehigh 0". The Boston Globe. October 25, 1894. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Princeton 34, Volunteers of NY 0". The Boston Globe. October 28, 1894. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Princeton Does Good Work". The Philadelphia Times. October 28, 1894. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Pennsylvania 12; Tigers 0". The New York Times. November 11, 1894. p. 3. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  16. ^ "Princeton 16; Orange A.C. 4". The Boston Globe. November 22, 1894. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ "Yale, 24 Princeton, 0: The Blue Has an Easy Triumph Over the Tiger". The Philadelphia Times. December 2, 1894. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "Tigers Downed". The Sunday Times. Minneapolis, Minnesota. December 2, 1894. p. 1. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  19. ^ "Yale 24, Princeton 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. December 2, 1894. p. 1. Retrieved March 8, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  20. ^ "Yale 24, Princeton 0 (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. December 2, 1894. p. 4. Retrieved March 8, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
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