1896 Princeton Tigers football team
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1896 Princeton Tigers football | |
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Conference | Independent |
1896 record | 10–0–1 |
Head coach | Franklin Morse |
Captain | Garrett Cochran |
The 1896 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1896 college football season. The team finished with a 10–0–1 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, and Houlgate System, and as a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis.[1][2] They outscored their opponents 299 to 12.[2]
Schedule
Date | Opponent | Site | Result | ||||||
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October 3 | Rutgers | Princeton, NJ | W 44–0 | ||||||
October 7 | at Lafayette | March Field • Easton, PA | T 0–0 | ||||||
October 10 | Lehigh | Princeton, NJ | W 16–0 | ||||||
October 14 | Carlisle | Princeton, NJ | W 22–6 | ||||||
October 17 | at Army | West Point, NY | W 11–0 | ||||||
October 21 | Virginia | Princeton, NJ | W 48–0 | ||||||
October 24 | Penn State | Princeton, NJ | W 39–0 | ||||||
October 28 | Lawrenceville School | ? | W 46–0 | ||||||
October 31 | Cornell | Princeton, NJ | W 37–0 | ||||||
November 7 | at Harvard | Cambridge, MA | W 12–0 | ||||||
November 21 | vs. Yale | New York, NY | W 24–6 | ||||||
*Non-conference game. |
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 1896 Princeton University football scores and results. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 16, 2013.