1914 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1914 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1914 college football season. The team finished with a 5–2–1 record under first-year head coach Wilder Penfield.[1] Princeton tackle Harold Ballin was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1914 College Football All-America Team.[2] This would be Penfield's only season as head coach of the Tigers; he became a neurosurgeon later in life.

1914 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–2–1
Head coach
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
1914 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Army    9 0 0
Harvard    7 0 2
Washington & Jefferson    10 1 0
Dartmouth    8 1 0
Lehigh    8 1 0
Pittsburgh    8 1 0
Cornell    8 2 0
Yale    7 2 0
Franklin & Marshall    6 2 1
Colgate    5 2 1
Princeton    5 2 1
Brown    5 2 2
Fordham    6 3 1
Geneva    5 3 0
Tufts    5 3 0
Penn State    5 3 1
Rutgers    5 3 1
Lafayette    5 3 2
Syracuse    5 3 2
Boston College    5 4 0
NYU    5 4 0
Villanova    4 3 1
Bucknell    4 4 1
Carnegie Tech    4 4 0
Penn    4 4 1
Temple    3 3 0
Rhode Island State    2 3 3
Carlisle    5 10 1
Holy Cross    2 5 1
Vermont    2 6 1
Duquesne    1 5 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 26 Rutgers W 12–0
October 3 Bucknell
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 10–0[3]
October 10 Syracuse
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 12–7
October 17 Lafayette
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 16–0
October 24 Dartmouth
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 16–12
October 31 Williams
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
T 7–7
November 7at Harvard L 0–20
November 14 Yale
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
L 14–19

References

  1. "1914 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. "This Was Not Easy Picking for the Tigers". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 4, 1914. p. Sporting 1 via Newspapers.com.
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