1926 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1926 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1926 college football season. The team finished with a 5–1–1 record under 13th-year head coach Bill Roper. The Tigers' sole loss of the season was to Navy by a 27–13 score.[1] No Princeton players were selected as first-team honorees on the 1926 College Football All-America Team.

1926 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–1–1
Head coach
CaptainJohn Davis
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
1926 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 5 Lafayette    9 0 0
No. 10 Brown    9 0 1
NYU    8 1 0
No. 9 Army    7 1 1
Washington & Jefferson    7 1 1
Boston College    6 0 2
No. 10 Penn    7 1 1
Cornell    6 1 1
Princeton    5 1 1
Carnegie Tech    7 2 0
Springfield    6 2 0
Syracuse    7 2 1
Villanova    6 2 1
Colgate    5 2 2
Columbia    6 3 0
Pittsburgh    5 2 2
CCNY    5 3 0
Temple    5 3 0
Penn State    5 4 0
Tufts    4 4 0
Yale    4 4 0
Bucknell    4 5 1
Fordham    3 4 1
Harvard    3 5 0
Rutgers    3 6 0
Vermont    3 6 0
Drexel    2 5 0
Boston University    2 6 0
Lehigh    1 8 0
Franklin & Marshall    0 8 1
Rankings from Dickinson System

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2 AmherstW 14–7
October 9 Washington and Lee
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
T 7–7
October 16 Navy
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
L 13–27 [2]
October 23 Lehigh
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 7–6 [3]
October 30 Swarthmore
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 27–0
November 6at Harvard W 12–055,000[4]
November 13 Yale
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 10–755,000[5]

References

  1. "1926 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. W. O. McGeehan (October 17, 1926). "Navy Team Beats Princeton: Middies Make Strong Finish". The Baltimore Sun. pp. Sports 1, 2 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Princeton Tigers Pressed To Defeat Lehigh, 7-6". New York Daily News. October 24, 1926. p. 43 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Tigers Triumph Over Harvard in First "Big 3" Football Game: Harvard's Hopes Are Higher Than Ability as Princeton Sweeps on to 12-0 Victory". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 7, 1926. pp. C1, C2 via Newspapers.com.
  5. William J. Lee (November 14, 1926). "Princeton Trounces Yale, 10-7: 55,000 People See Game That Decides Possible Final Championship of Famous 'Big Three'". The Hartford Courant. pp. I-1, IV-1 via Newspapers.com.
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