1901 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1901 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1901 college football season. The team finished with a 9–1–1 record under first-year head coach Langdon Lea. The Tigers won their first nine games, including eight shutouts, and outscored their opponents by a total of 247 to 24. The team's only loss was in the last game of the season by a 12–0 score against Yale.[1] Princeton end Ralph Tipton Davis was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1901 College Football All-America Team.[2]

1901 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–1–1
Head coach
CaptainWilliamson Pell
Home stadiumUniversity Field
1901 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Harvard   –  12 –0 –0
Yale   –  11 –1 –1
Cornell   –  11 –1 –0
Dartmouth   –  10 –1 –0
Massachusetts   –  9 –1 –0
Princeton   –  9 –1 –1
Syracuse   –  7 –1 –0
Holy Cross   –  7 –1 –1
Geneva   –  6 –1 –1
Army   –  5 –1 –2
Western U. of Penn   –  7 –2 –1
Lafayette   –  9 –3 –0
Swarthmore   –  8 –2 –2
Washington & Jefferson   –  6 –2 –2
Frankin & Marshall   –  7 –3 –1
Penn   –  10 –5 –0
Buffalo   –  4 –2 –0
Columbia   –  8 –5 –0
Fordham   –  2 –1 –1
Penn State   –  5 –3 –0
Bucknell   –  6 –4 –0
Pittsburgh College   –  3 –2 –0
Temple   –  3 –2 –0
NYU   –  4 –3 –1
Tufts   –  6 –6 –1
Vermont   –  5 –5 –1
Dickinson   –  3 –4 –0
Carlisle   –  5 –7 –1
Brown   –  4 –7 –1
Villanova   –  2 –3 –0
Drexel   –  2 –5 –1
Colgate   –  2 –5 –0
Boston College   –  1 –8 –0
Lehigh   –  1 –11 –0
New Hampshire   –  0 –6 –0
Rutgers   –  0 –7 –0

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2 Villanova
W 35–0[3]
October 5 Haverford
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 47–0[4]
October 9 NYU
  • University Field
  • Princeton, N
W 23–0[5]
October 12 Lehigh
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 35–0[6]
October 16 Dickinson
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 23–0[7]
October 19 Brown
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 35–0[8]
October 23 Orange Athletic Club
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 29–0[9]
October 26 Lafayette
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 6–03,000[10]
November 2at Cornell
W 8–6[11]
November 9at Army
T 6–6[12]
November 16at Yale
L 0–12> 19,000[13]

References
  1. "1901 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. "Easy Walkover for the Tigers". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 3, 1901. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Princeton, 47; Haverford, 0". The New York Times. October 6, 1901. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Princeton 23, N.Y. University 0". New York Tribune. October 10, 1901. p. 10. Retrieved February 3, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Princeton, 35; Lehigh, 0". The New York Times. October 13, 1901. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Princeton, 23; Dickinson, 0". The New York Times. October 17, 1901. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Princeton, 35; Brown, 0". New York Daily Tribune. October 20, 1901. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Princeton Smashes Orange Line: Offside Play and Fumbling Accompany Tigers' Victory". New York Daily Tribune. October 24, 1901. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Princeton, 6; Lafayette, 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 27, 1901. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Princeton, 8; Cornell, 6". The New York Times. November 3, 1901. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Soldiers Tie Princeton: Football Game at West Point Ended with Score Six All". The New York Times. November 10, 1901. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. "Yale and Cornell Winners: Princeton Unable To Score Against Old Eli; Rout of the Tigers". New York Tribune. November 17, 1901. pp. 1–2 – via Newspapers.com.
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