1933 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1933 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Princeton University as an independent during the 1933 college football season. In their second season under head coach Fritz Crisler, the Tigers compiled a perfect 9–0 record, shut out seven of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 217 to 8.[1]

1933 Princeton Tigers football
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–0
Head coach
CaptainArthur Stephen Lane
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
1933 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 7 Princeton   –  9 –0 –0
Duquesne   –  10 –1 –0
No. 9 Army   –  9 –1 –0
Boston College   –  8 –1 –0
Columbia   –  8 –1 –0
Pittsburgh   –  8 –1 –0
Colgate   –  6 –1 –1
Bucknell   –  7 –2 –0
Fordham   –  6 –2 –0
Tufts   –  6 –2 –0
Villanova   –  7 –2 –1
Harvard   –  5 –2 –1
Drexel   –  5 –3 –0
Massachusetts State   –  5 –3 –0
Temple   –  5 –3 –0
Manhattan   –  5 –3 –1
Cornell   –  4 –3 –0
Carnegie Tech   –  4 –3 –2
La Salle   –  3 –3 –2
Syracuse   –  4 –4 –0
Yale   –  4 –4 –0
Penn State   –  3 –3 –1
Brown   –  3 –5 –0
Vermont   –  3 –5 –0
Franklin & Marshall   –  4 –5 –0
NYU   –  2 –4 –1
Penn   –  2 –4 –1
Northeastern   –  1 –3 –1
Boston University   –  2 –5 –0
Washington & Jefferson   –  2 –7 –1
CCNY   –  1 –5 –1
Rankings from Dickinson System

There was no contemporaneous system in 1933 for determining a national champion. However, Princeton was retroactively named as the national champion by Parke H. Davis.[2] The 1933 Michigan Wolverines football team was selected as national champion by 10 other selectors and as co-champion by Davis.

Tackle Charles Ceppi was selected as a first-team All-American by the All-American Board, the Football Writers Association of America, the International News Service, Liberty magazine, the North American Newspaper Alliance, the Central Press Association, Davis J. Walsh, and the Walter Camp Football Foundation. He was named to the second team by the Associated Press and United Press.[3]

Other key players included halfback Garrett LeVan, end Ken Fairman, quarterback Jack Kadlic, back Homer Spofford, and guard Frank John.[4]

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 7Amherst
W 40–0[5]
October 14Williams
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 45–0[6]
October 21Columbia
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 20–040,000[7]
October 28Washington and Lee
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 6–0[8]
November 4at Brown
W 33–020,000[9]
November 11Dartmouth
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 7–035,000–45,000[10][11]
November 18Navy
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 13–035,000[12]
November 25Rutgers
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 26–645,000[13]
December 2at Yale
W 27–240,000[14][4]

[1]

References
  1. "1933 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
  3. ESPN College Football Encyclopedia. ESPN Books. 2005. p. 1165. ISBN 1401337031.
  4. "Princeton Drubs Yale By 27 to 2". The Hartford Courant. December 3, 1933. pp. 1, 37 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Powerful Tiger Outfit Crushes Amherst, 40-0". New York Daily News. October 8, 1933. p. 65C – via Newspapers.com.
  6. Marshall Hunt (October 15, 1933). "Princeton Beats Williams in a 45-0 Runaway". New York Daily News. p. 84 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. Jimmy Powers (October 22, 1933). "Princeton Overwhelms Lion, 20-0; Montgomery In Fight". New York Daily News. p. 80 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Princeton Extended to Beat Fighting W. & L. Eleven, 6 to 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 29, 1933. p. D1 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Princeton Buries Bruin By 33 To 0". The Hartford Courant. November 5, 1933. p. IV-1 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. Field, Bryan (November 12, 1933). "Princeton Aerial Stops Dartmouth". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  11. Francis Wallace (November 12, 1933). "Tigers Trim Big Green, 7-0, To Remain Unbeaten, Untied". New York Daily News. p. 64C – via Newspapers.com.
  12. Marshall Hunt (November 19, 1933). "Tigers Rally in Last Period, Top Navy, 13-0". New York Daily News. p. 63C – via Newspapers.com.
  13. Kenneth Q. Jennings (November 26, 1933). "Rutgers Falls to Princeton 26-6; Winika First Player to Cross Tigers' Line this Year: Undefeated Princeton Is Given Battle Before Crowd of 45,000". The Sunday Times. New Brunswick, N.J. pp. 1, 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. Jimmy Powers (December 3, 1933). "Undefeated Princeton Wallops Yale by 27-2! Fights Follow Game". New York Daily News. p. 85 – via Newspapers.com.
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