1887 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1887 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1887 college football season. The team finished with a 7–2 record. The Tigers held their first nine opponents scoreless, winning those games by a combined 420 to 0 score. The team then lost the last two games of the season against Harvard and Yale.[1]

1887 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–2
Head coach
  • None
CaptainWoody Wagenhorst
1887 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale   –  9 –0 –0
Penn State   –  2 –0 –0
Harvard   –  10 –1 –0
Lafayette   –  7 –2 –0
Princeton   –  7 –2 –0
Lehigh   –  4 –3 –0
Williams   –  3 –3 –0
Penn   –  6 –7 –0
Wesleyan   –  4 –5 –0
Tufts   –  4 –6 –0
Massachusetts   –  2 –3 –0
Rutgers   –  2 –6 –0
Bucknell   –  0 –2 –0
Cornell   –  0 –2 –0
Franklin & Marshall   –  0 –2 –0
Vermont   –  0 –2 –0

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 8Lafayette
W 47–0[2]
October 12at Rutgers
W 30–0[3]
October 15Lehigh
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 80–0[4]
October 19at PennPhiladelphia, PA (rivalry)W 57–03,000[5]
October 22Penn
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 48–0[6]
October 29Wesleyan
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 69–0[7]
November 5at Penn
  • University Athletic Grounds
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 95–0[8]
November 12at Harvard
L 0–12[9]
November 19vs. Yale
L 0–12[10]

References
  1. "1887 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. "Foot Ball at Princeton: The Lafayette Team Defeated in the Opening Game". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 9, 1887. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Princeton Defeats Rutgers". The New York Times. October 13, 1887. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Princeton Easily Outkicks Lehigh". The Times (Philadelphia). October 16, 1887. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "College Foot Ball: Princeton Wins in the Game with the University". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 20, 1887. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Cold Weather Sport: The University Football Team Defeated at Princeton". The Times (Philadelphia). October 23, 1887. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "The Football One Sided: Wesleyan Pluck Futile Against Princeton Play". The New York Times. October 30, 1887. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Princeton's Foot-Ball Victory: The Great Score of 95 to 0 With Pennsylvania". The Times (Philadelphia). November 6, 1887. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Harvard Winning At Football". New York Daily Tribune. November 13, 1887. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Yale Triumphs in the Mud". The Sun (New York). November 20, 1887. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
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