2016 Princeton Tigers football team
The 2016 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by seventh-year head coach Bob Surace and played their home games at Powers Field at Princeton Stadium. Princeton is a member of the Ivy League. They finished the season 8–2 overall and 6–1 in Ivy League play to tie with Penn for the Ivy League title, their first since 2013. Princeton averaged 8,990 fans per game.
| 2016 Princeton Tigers football | |
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Ivy League co-champion | |
| Conference | Ivy League |
| Record | 8–2 (6–1 Ivy) |
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| Offensive coordinator | James Perry (7th season) |
| Co-defensive coordinator | Steve Verbit |
| Co-defensive coordinator | Jim Salgado |
| Home stadium | Powers Field at Princeton Stadium (Capacity: 27,773) |
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| Princeton + | 6 | – | 1 | 8 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Penn + | 6 | – | 1 | 7 | – | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Harvard | 5 | – | 2 | 7 | – | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brown | 3 | – | 4 | 4 | – | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yale | 3 | – | 4 | 3 | – | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cornell | 2 | – | 5 | 4 | – | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Columbia | 2 | – | 5 | 3 | – | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dartmouth | 1 | – | 6 | 4 | – | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Schedule
| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | TV | Result | Attendance |
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| September 17 | 5:00 p.m. | Lafayette* | ESPN3 | W 35–31 | 13,420 | |
| September 24 | 12:30 p.m. | at Lehigh* | CI | L 28–42 | 5,493 | |
| October 1 | 12:00 p.m. | at Columbia | FCS | W 48–13 | 3,638 | |
| October 8 | 1:00 p.m. | at Georgetown* | CI | W 31–17 | 2,263 | |
| October 15 | 3:00 p.m. | Brown |
| ILDN | W 31–7 | 5,881 |
| October 22 | 1:00 p.m. | Harvard |
| ILDN | L 20–23 OT | 9,963 |
| October 29 | 12:30 p.m. | at Cornell | OWSPN | W 56–7 | 4,879 | |
| November 5 | 12:00 p.m. | Penn |
| ASN | W 28–0 | 7,367 |
| November 12 | 12:30 p.m. | at Yale | ILDN | W 31–3 | 15,321 | |
| November 19 | 1:30 p.m. | Dartmouth |
| OWSPN | W 38–21 | 8,320 |
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Game summaries
Lafayette
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
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| Leopards | 14 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 31 |
| Tigers | 7 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 35 |
At Lehigh
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
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| Tigers | 7 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 28 |
| Mountain Hawks | 7 | 14 | 14 | 7 | 42 |
At Columbia
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
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| Tigers | 6 | 28 | 14 | 0 | 48 |
| Lions | 6 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 13 |
At Georgetown
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
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| Tigers | 14 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 31 |
| Hoyas | 7 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 17 |
Brown
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
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| Bears | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Tigers | 14 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 31 |
Harvard
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | OT | Total | |
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| Crimson | 7 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 23 |
| Tigers | 0 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 20 |
At Cornell
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
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| Tigers | 14 | 21 | 14 | 7 | 56 |
| Big Red | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
Penn
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
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| Quakers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tigers | 6 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 28 |
At Yale
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
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| Tigers | 7 | 10 | 0 | 14 | 31 |
| Bulldogs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Dartmouth
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
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| Big Green | 7 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 21 |
| Tigers | 7 | 3 | 7 | 21 | 38 |
References
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