2012 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIvy League
Record5–5 (4–3 Ivy)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorJames Perry (3rd season)
Defensive coordinatorJared Backus (4th season)
Home stadiumPowers Field at Princeton Stadium
Seasons
← 2011
2013 →
2012 Ivy League football standings
Conf Overall
Team   W   L     W   L  
Penn $   6 – 1     6 – 4  
Harvard   5 – 2     8 – 2  
Brown   4 – 3     7 – 3  
Dartmouth   4 – 3     6 – 4  
Princeton   4 – 3     5 – 5  
Cornell   2 – 5     4 – 6  
Columbia   2 – 5     3 – 7  
Yale   1 – 6     2 – 8  
  • $ – Conference champion

The 2012 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 2012 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by third-year head coach Bob Surace and played their home games at Powers Field at Princeton Stadium. They are a member of the Ivy League. They finished the season 5–5 overall and 4–3 in Ivy League play to places in a three-way tie for third. Princeton averaged 7,984 fans per game. Captain Mike Catapano was Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year.[1] He was drafted in the 2013 NFL Draft by the Kansas City Chiefs with the first pick of the seventh round (207th overall) becoming Princeton's first draftee since Dennis Norman in the 2001 NFL Draft.[2]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteTVResultAttendance
September 1512:30 p.m.at No. 16 Lehigh*
2 SportsL 14–177,346
September 217:00 p.m.Georgetown*
ESPNUL 20–216,792
September 2912:30 p.m.at Columbia
W 33–64,469
October 66:00 p.m.at Lafayette*
W 35–146,821
October 1312:00 p.m.Brown
  • Powers Field at Princeton Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
NBCSNW 19–06,482
October 201:00 p.m.No. 22 Harvard
  • Powers Field at Princeton Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
ESPN3W 39–3410,823
October 2712:30 p.m.at Cornell
L 35–374,420
November 31:00 p.m.Penn
  • Powers Field at Princeton Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
ESPN3L 21–287,494
November 1012:00 p.m.at Yale
YESW 29–721,824
November 171:00 p.m.Dartmouth
  • Powers Field at Princeton Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
L 21–358,327

References

  1. ^ "2012 Ivy League Football: Final" (PDF). IvyLeagueSports.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 2, 2014. Retrieved May 8, 2013.
  2. ^ Brandt, Gil (March 27, 2013). "Mike Catapano of Princeton might be first Ivy Leaguer drafted". NFL.com. Retrieved May 4, 2013.
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