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1916 Princeton Tigers football team

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1916 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–2
Head coach
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
Seasons
← 1915
1917 →
1916 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Army – 9–0–0
Pittsburgh – 8–0–0
Brown – 8–1–0
Colgate – 8–1–0
Yale – 8–1–0
Fordham – 6–1–1
Swarthmore – 6–1–1
Penn State – 8–2–0
Washington & Jefferson – 8–2–0
Boston College – 6–2–0
Cornell – 6–2–0
Princeton – 6–2–0
Lehigh – 6–2–1
Dartmouth – 5–2–2
Harvard – 7–3–0
Penn – 7–3–1
Temple – 3–1–2
Tufts – 5–3–0
Carnegie Tech – 4–3–0
Rutgers – 3–2–2
NYU – 4–3–1
Syracuse – 5–4–0
Holy Cross – 4–5–0
Vermont – 4–5–0
Rhode Island State – 3–4–1
New Hampshire – 3–5–2
Geneva – 2–5–2
Carlisle – 1–3–1
Lafayette – 2–6–1
Bucknell – 3–9–0
Columbia – 1–5–2
Franklin & Marshall – 1–7–0
Villanova – 1–8–0

The 1916 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1916 college football season. The team finished with a 6–2 record under second-year head coach John H. Rush.[1] Princeton guard Frank T. Hogg was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1916 College Football All-America Team.[2] Three other Princeton players (end Charles Highley, center Alfred Gennert, and a tackle with the surname McLean) were selected as first-team honorees by at least one selector in 1916.

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30at Holy CrossW 21–06,000[3]
October 7 North CarolinaW 29–0
October 14 Tufts
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 3–0
October 21 Lafayette
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 33–0
October 28 Dartmouth
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 7–3
November 4 Bucknell
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 42–0
November 11at HarvardL 0–3
November 18 Yale
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
L 0–1042,000[4]

References

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  1. ↑ "1916 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
  3. ↑ "Tigers Get Edge on Holy Cross in Early Periods". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. October 1, 1916. Sporting sect., p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Battered Yale Sweeps Tigers To Dire Defeat". The New York Times. November 19, 1916. p. VIII-1 – via Newspapers.com.