1902 Princeton Tigers football
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Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Ursinus   –   9 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   11 – 0 – 1
Geneva   –   7 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –   11 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   8 – 1 – 0
Army   –   6 – 1 – 1
Frankin & Marshall   –   7 – 2 – 0
Dartmouth   –   6 – 2 – 1
Holy Cross   –   6 – 2 – 1
Syracuse   –   6 – 2 – 1
Carlisle   –   8 – 3 – 0
Cornell   –   8 – 3 – 0
Lafayette   –   8 – 3 – 0
Amherst   –   7 – 3 – 0
Penn State   –   7 – 3 – 0
Penn   –   9 – 4 – 0
Lehigh   –   7 – 3 – 1
Vermont   –   5 – 3 – 2
Colgate   –   5 – 3 – 1
NYU   –   5 – 3 – 0
Bucknell   –   6 – 4 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 4 – 0
Columbia   –   6 – 4 – 1
Springfield Training School   –   3 – 2 – 1
Villanova   –   4 – 3 – 0
Brown   –   5 – 4 – 1
Swarthmore   –   6 – 6 – 0
Western U. of Penn.   –   5 – 6 – 1
New Hampshire   –   2 – 3 – 1
Buffalo   –   3 – 5 – 1
Tufts   –   4 – 6 – 1
Fordham   –   2 – 4 – 1
Wesleyan   –   3 – 6 – 1
Rutgers   –   3 – 7 – 0
Navy   –   2 – 7 – 1
Drexel   –   1 – 4 – 1
Temple   –   1 – 4 – 1
Pittsburgh College   –   1 – 6 – 0
Boston College   –   0 – 8 – 0

The 1902 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1902 college football season. The team finished with an 8–1 record under first-year head coach Garrett Cochran. The Tigers won their first eight games, including seven shutouts, and outscored their opponents by a total of 164 to 17. The team's only loss was in the last game of the season by a 12–5 score against Yale.[1] Princeton guard John DeWitt, who later won the silver medal in the hammer throw at the 1904 Summer Olympics, was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1902 College Football All-America Team.[2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27 Swarthmore
W 18–0
October 4 Lehigh
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 23–0
October 11at Navy
W 11–0
October 15 Haverford
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 30–0
October 18 Washington & Jefferson
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 23–5[3]
October 22 Dickinson
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 23–0
October 25 Columbia
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 21–06,000[4]
November 1 Cornell
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 10–0
November 15 Yale
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
L 5–1220,000[5]

References

  1. ^ "1902 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. ^ "Good Start By W. & J." The Pittsburgh Post. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 19, 1902. p. 15. Retrieved September 28, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ "Princeton, 21; Columbia, 0". The New York Times. October 26, 1902. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Yale Football Team Defeats Princeton: New Haven Eleven Wins After a Fiercely Fought Game". The New York Times. November 16, 1902. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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