1913 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–2–1
Head coach
CaptainHobey Baker
Home stadiumUniversity Field
Seasons
← 1912
1914 →
1913 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard   –   9 – 0 – 0
Carlisle   –   10 – 1 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   10 – 0 – 1
Army   –   8 – 1 – 0
Dartmouth   –   7 – 1 – 0
Tufts   –   7 – 1 – 0
Colgate   –   6 – 1 – 1
Franklin & Marshall   –   6 – 2 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   6 – 2 – 1
Princeton   –   5 – 2 – 1
Yale   –   5 – 2 – 3
Rutgers   –   6 – 3 – 0
Penn   –   6 – 3 – 1
Villanova   –   4 – 2 – 1
Lehigh   –   5 – 3 – 0
Bucknell   –   6 – 4 – 0
Cornell   –   5 – 4 – 1
Boston College   –   4 – 3 – 1
Syracuse   –   6 – 4 – 0
Fordham   –   3 – 3 – 2
Geneva   –   4 – 4 – 0
Lafayette   –   4 – 5 – 1
Brown   –   4 – 5 – 0
Duquesne   –   3 – 5 – 1
Carnegie Tech   –   2 – 4 – 1
Holy Cross   –   3 – 6 – 0
Temple   –   1 – 3 – 2
Penn State   –   2 – 6 – 0
Rhode Island State   –   2 – 6 – 0
Vermont   –   1 – 5 – 0
NYU   –   0 – 8 – 0

The 1913 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1913 college football season. The team finished with a 5–2–1 record under first-year head coach Walter G. Andrews.[1] Princeton tackle Harold Ballin was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1913 College Football All-America Team.[2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27 Rutgers
W 14–3[3]
October 4 Fordham
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 69–0[4]
October 11 Bucknell
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 28–6[5]
October 18 Syracuse
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 13–0
October 25 Dartmouth
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
L 0–6
November 1 Holy Cross
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 54–0[6]
November 8 Harvard
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
L 0–325,000[7]
November 15at Yale
T 3–3

References

  1. ^ "1913 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. ^ "Talman of Rutgers scores on Princeton". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. September 28, 1913. Retrieved December 2, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Princeton Plays Some "Real" Football". New York Tribune. October 5, 1913 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Bucknell Hits Tiger Goal Line". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 12, 1913. p. Sporting 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Tigers' New Plays Beat Holy Cross". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. November 2, 1913. p. S2 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Melville E. Webb Jr. (November 9, 1913). "Harvard Breaks an Old Tradition: Tigers Beaten on Own Field for First Time by Crimson". The Boston Globe. pp. 1, 14 – via Newspapers.com.
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