1891 Princeton Tigers football team

1891 Princeton Tigers football
Conference Independent
1891 record 12–1
Head coach No coach
Captain Ralph Warren
1891 college football records
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Yale         13 0 0
Harvard         13 1 0
Princeton         12 1 0
Trinity         3 0 0
Wake Forest         1 0 0
Penn         11 2 0
Illinois         5 1 0
Colgate         4 1 0
Army         4 1 1
Stanford         3 1 0
Vanderbilt         3 1 0
Wisconsin         3 1 1
Navy         5 2 0
Cornell         7 3 0
Rutgers         8 6 0
Washington & Jefferson         4 2 0
Virginia         2 1 2
Dartmouth         2 2 1
Washington         1 1 0
Sewanee         1 2 0
USC         1 2 0
Michigan         4 5 0
Colorado         1 4 0
Columbia         1 5 0
California         0 1 0
West Virginia         0 1 0
North Carolina         0 2 0

The 1891 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1891 college football season. The team finished with a 12–1 record. The Tigers recorded 12 shutouts and outscored opponents by a combined total of 391 to 0 in their first 12 games. The team's sole loss was in the final game of the season by a 19–0 score against Yale.[1] Three Princeton players (quarterback Philip King, fullback Sheppard Homans, Jr., and guard Jesse Riggs) were consensus first-team honorees on the 1891 College Football All-America Team.[2]

References

  1. "1891 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
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