1941 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIvy League
Record2–6 (1–4 Ivy)
Head coach
CaptainBob Peters
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
Seasons
← 1940
1942 →
1941 Ivy League football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 15 Penn $ 5 – 0 – 0 7 – 1 – 0
Columbia 3 – 1 – 0 3 – 5 – 0
Harvard 4 – 2 – 0 5 – 2 – 1
Cornell 3 – 2 – 0 5 – 3 – 0
Dartmouth 2 – 2 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
Brown 1 – 2 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
Princeton 1 – 4 – 0 2 – 6 – 0
Yale 0 – 6 – 0 1 – 7 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1941 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Princeton University in the Ivy League during the 1941 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Tad Wieman, the team compiled a 2–6 record and was outscored by a total of 152 to 64.[1]

Princeton was ranked at No. 76 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.[2]

The team played its home games at Palmer Stadium in Princeton, New Jersey.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 4Williams*
W 20–711,000[3]
October 11Columbia
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
L 0–2130,000[4]
October 18 No. 11 Penn
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
L 0–2331,500[5]
October 25at No. 15 Vanderbilt*
L 7–4614,000[6]
November 1Harvard
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
L 4–618,000[7]
November 8Dartmouth
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
L 13–2030,000[8]
November 15at Yale
W 20–635,000[9]
November 22 No. 12 Navy*
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
L 0–2342,000[10]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. ^ "1941 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 11, 2019.
  2. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 26, 1941). "Gophers Grid Kings Over 6-Year Span: Tennessee 2d, Pitt 3d Over Period Litkenhous Ratins Are Published". The Courier-Journal. p. Sports 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "20-7 Triumph To Princeton Over Williams". The Baltimore Sun. October 5, 1941. p. Sports 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Joe Trimble (October 12, 1941). "Governali Leads Lions Over Princeton, 21-0". New York Daily News. p. 92 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Cy Peterman (October 19, 1941). "Penn Beats Princeton". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. S1, S5 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Vandy Routs Game but Outclassed Princeton by 46 to 7". The Nashville Tennessean. October 26, 1941. p. Sports 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Harvard Wins, 6-5 On 87-Yard Run". New York Daily News. November 2, 1941. p. 41C – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Indians Defeat Tigers In Weird Battle 20-13". The Hartford Courant. November 9, 1941. p. 6C – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Frank Keyes (November 16, 1941). "Captain Bob Peters Sparks Princeton Tigers To 20 To 6 Triumph Over Yale". The Hartford Courant. p. IV-1 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Navy scores 23-0 win over Princeton as Busik stars". Milwaukee Sentinel. Associated Press. November 23, 1941. p. 2B.
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