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
Seasons
← 1918
1920 →
1919 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   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

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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[4]
November 82:00 p.m. Harvard
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
T 10–1015,000[5][6][7][8]
November 15at YaleW 13–6

References

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  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. ^ "Princeton's defeat by West Virginia biggest surprise of season". The Hartford Daily Courant. November 2, 1919. Retrieved July 21, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Melville E. Webb Jr (November 8, 1919). "Harvard Favorite in Its Game with Tigers Today". The Boston Globe. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ "Archival film of Princeton-Harvard game". Princeton University Archives. Retrieved March 26, 2022.