1912 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1912 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1912 college football season. The team finished with a 7–1–1 record under first-year head coach Walter G. Andrews, outscoring opponents by a total of 322 to 35 with the sole loss being to Harvard by 16–6 score.[1] Princeton W. John Logan was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1912 College Football All-America Team,[2] and five other players (halfback Hobey Baker, fullback Wallace "Butch" De Witt, guard Rip Shenk, and tackles Phillips and Penfield) were selected as first-team honorees by at least one selector.

1912 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1–1
Head coach
CaptainTal Pendleton
Home stadiumUniversity Field
1912 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Harvard    9 0 0
Penn State    8 0 0
Carlisle    12 1 1
Maine    7 1 0
Princeton    7 1 1
Swarthmore    7 1 1
Yale    7 1 1
Lehigh    9 2 0
Dartmouth    7 2 0
Wesleyan    7 2 0
Colgate    5 2 0
Washington & Jefferson    8 3 1
Rhode Island State    6 3 0
Bucknell    6 3 1
Temple    3 2 0
Penn    7 4 0
Army    5 3 0
Brown    6 4 0
Franklin & Marshall    6 4 0
Holy Cross    4 3 1
Rutgers    5 4 0
Tufts    5 4 0
Fordham    4 4 0
Villanova    3 3 0
Morris Harvey    2 2 0
Lafayette    4 5 1
Syracuse    4 5 0
Carnegie Tech    3 4 1
Geneva    3 4 0
Vermont    3 5 0
Pittsburgh    3 6 0
Boston College    2 4 1
Cornell    3 7 0
NYU    2 6 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28 StevensW 65–0
October 2 Rutgers
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 41–6
October 5 Lehigh
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 35–0
October 12 VPI
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 31–0
October 19 Syracuse
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 62–0
October 26 Dartmouth
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 22–7
November 2at HarvardL 6–1630,000[3]
November 9 NYU
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 54–0[4]
November 16 Yale
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
T 6–6

References

  1. "1912 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. Melville E. Webb Jr. (November 3, 1912). "Double Knot in Tiger's Tail: Brickley Hero of Harvard's 16-to-6 Triumph". The Boston Globe. p. 1 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "N.Y.U. a morsel for Tiger eleven". The Daily Home News. November 11, 1912. Retrieved February 5, 2021 via Newspapers.com.
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