1911 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Helms, Houlgate, Davis)
Co-national champion (NCF)
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–0–2
Head coach
Offensive schemeShort punt
CaptainEd Hart
Home stadiumOsborne Field
Seasons
← 1910
1912 →
1911 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn State   –   8 – 0 – 1
Carlisle   –   11 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   8 – 0 – 2
Trinity (CT)   –   6 – 0 – 2
Temple   –   6 – 1 – 0
Army   –   6 – 1 – 1
Swarthmore   –   6 – 1 – 1
Dartmouth   –   8 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   8 – 2 – 0
Yale   –   7 – 2 – 1
Harvard   –   6 – 2 – 1
Cornell   –   7 – 3 – 0
Rhode Island State   –   5 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   7 – 3 – 1
Bucknell   –   6 – 3 – 1
Penn   –   7 – 4 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   4 – 3 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 4 – 0
Syracuse   –   5 – 3 – 2
Dickinson   –   4 – 4 – 0
Lehigh   –   5 – 5 – 1
Rutgers   –   4 – 4 – 1
Dickinson   –   4 – 4 – 0
St. Bonaventure   –   2 – 2 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   4 – 5 – 0
Holy Cross   –   4 – 5 – 0
Tufts   –   3 – 4 – 0
Vermont   –   3 – 5 – 0
NYU   –   1 – 3 – 3
Colgate   –   3 – 6 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   3 – 6 – 0
Geneva   –   1 – 6 – 1
Villanova   –   0 – 5 – 1
Boston College   –   0 – 7 – 0

The 1911 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Princeton University as an independent during the 1911 college football season. In their fifth season under head coach Bill Roper, the Tigers compiled an 8–0–2 record, shut out seven of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 179 to 15.[1] Tackle Ed Hart was the team captain.

There was no contemporaneous system in 1911 for determining a national champion. However, Princeton was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and Parke H. Davis, and as a co-national champion (with Penn State) by the National Championship Foundation.[2]

Three Princeton players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1911 All-America team: end Sanford White; guard Joseph Duff; and tackle Ed Hart.[3] Other notable players included halfback Talbot Pendleton, fullback Wallace DeWitt, and center Arthur Bluethenthal.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30Stevens
W 37–0[4]
October 4Rutgers
  • Osborne Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 37–03,000[5]
October 7Villanova
  • Osborne Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 31–0[6]
October 11Lehigh
  • Osborne Field
  • Princeton, NJ
T 6–6[7]
October 14Colgate
  • Osborne Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 31–0[8]
October 21at Navy
T 0–0[9]
October 28Holy Cross
  • Osborne Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 20–0[10]
November 4Harvard
  • Osborne Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 8–6[11]
November 11Dartmouth
  • Osborne Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 3–0[12]
November 18at Yale
W 6–335,000[13][14]

[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "1911 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. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  3. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. ^ "Princeton Beats Stevens: One-Sided Game Gives Tigers Chance to Try Out Many Substittes". The New York Times. October 1, 1911. p. 30 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Princeton's Open Football Wins: Rutgers Defeated by Forward Passes, Fake Formations, and Line Shifts". The New York Times. October 5, 1911. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Villanova Plays Poorly: Princeton, Therefore, Easily Runs Up 31-Point Score on Muddy Field". The New York Times. October 8, 1911. p. 31 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Lehigh Spring Big Surprise on Tigers: Pennsylvanians Score Early and Princeton Can Only Get an Even Break". The New York Times. October 12, 1911. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Penalties Mar Princeton's Game: Colgate, However, Much Outclassed by Tigers, Who Failed to Get a First Down". The New York Times. October 15, 1911. p. 39 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Middies Hold Tigers to a Scoreless Tie on Annapolis Field". The New York Times. October 22, 1911. p. 31 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Tiger Claws Rip Up Holy Cross Eleven". Brooklyn Eagle. Brooklyn, N.Y. October 29, 1911. sect. 5, p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Princeton Humbles Harvard's Eleven: Orange and Black Wins First Big Game of the Season by the Close Score of 8 to 6". The New York Times. November 5, 1911. p. 31 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Tiger Beat Dartmouth by Freak of Football: Ball Bounds Over Crossbar for a Goal on Poorly Made Drop Kick". New York Tribune. November 12, 1911. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Princeton Wins on Yale Field: Sam White Again the Hero of an Orange and Black Victory". The New York Times. November 19, 1911. p. 25 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Princeton Beats Yale By White's Run". New York Tribune. November 19, 1911. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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