1919 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1919 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1919 college football season. The team finished with a 4–2–1 record under sixth-year head coach Bill Roper.[1] No Princeton players were selected as consensus first-team honorees on the 1919 College Football All-America Team, but halfback Murray Trimble was selected as a first-team All-American by the Reno Evening Gazette,[2] and a second-team All-American by Walter Camp.[3]

1919 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–2–1
Head coach
Offensive schemeShort punt
CaptainHack McGraw
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
1919 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Harvard    9 0 1
Penn State    7 1 0
Swarthmore    7 1 0
Dartmouth    6 1 1
Colgate    5 1 1
New Hampshire    7 2 0
Lafayette    6 2 0
Washington & Jefferson    6 2 0
Williams    6 2 0
Syracuse    8 3 0
Penn    6 2 1
Pittsburgh    6 2 1
Lehigh    6 3 0
Princeton    4 2 1
Geneva    4 2 2
Army    6 3 0
Boston College    5 3 0
Holy Cross    5 3 0
Rutgers    5 3 0
Yale    5 3 0
Villanova    5 3 1
Brown    5 4 1
Bucknell    5 4 1
NYU    4 4 0
Carnegie Tech    3 4 0
Columbia    2 4 3
Cornell    3 5 0
Vermont    3 6 0
Franklin & Marshall    2 4 2
Tufts    2 5 0
Buffalo    0 5 1
Rhode Island State    0 8 1
Drexel    0 4 0

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 4 Trinity (CT)W 28–0
October 11 Lafayette
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 9–6
October 18 Rochester
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 34–0
October 25 Colgate
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
L 0–7
November 1 West Virginia
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
L 0–25
November 82:00 p.m. Harvard
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
T 10–1015,000[4][5][6][7]
November 15at YaleW 13–6

References

  1. "1919 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. "All-American Team Picked by Hahn for Gazette". Reno Evening Gazette. December 4, 1919.
  3. "Walter Camp's All-American Team". Fitchburg Daily Sentinel. December 13, 1919.
  4. Melville E. Webb Jr (November 8, 1919). "Harvard Favorite in Its Game with Tigers Today". The Boston Globe. p. 8 via Newspapers.com.
  5. Grantland Rice (November 9, 1919). "Harvard Eleven Rallies in Closing and Earns 10 to 10 Draw With Princeton". New York Tribune. p. 20 via Newspapers.com.
  6. William D. Sullivan (November 9, 1919). "Harvard Fights Tigers to a Tie: Great Fourth Period Rally Staves Off Defeat". The Boston Globe. pp. 1, 17.
  7. "Archival film of Princeton-Harvard game". Princeton University Archives. Retrieved March 26, 2022.
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