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 8LafayetteW 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 HarvardL 0–12[9]
November 19vs. YaleL 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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