1887 Princeton Tigers football team

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1887 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–2
Head coach
  • None
CaptainWoody Wagenhorst
Seasons
← 1886
1888 →
1887 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   9 – 0 – 0
Penn State   –   2 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –   10 – 1 – 0
Lafayette   –   7 – 2 – 0
Princeton   –   7 – 2 – 0
Lehigh   –   4 – 3 – 0
Williams   –   3 – 3 – 0
Penn   –   6 – 7 – 0
Wesleyan   –   4 – 5 – 0
Tufts   –   4 – 6 – 0
Massachusetts   –   2 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   2 – 6 – 0
Bucknell   –   0 – 2 – 0
Cornell   –   0 – 2 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   0 – 2 – 0
Vermont   –   0 – 2 – 0

The 1887 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1887 college football season. The team finished with a 7–2 record. The Tigers held their first nine opponents scoreless, winning those games by a combined 420 to 0 score. The team then lost the last two games of the season against Harvard and Yale.[1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 8Lafayette
W 47–0[2]
October 12at Rutgers
W 30–0[3]
October 15Lehigh
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 80–0[4]
October 19at PennPhiladelphia, PA (rivalry)W 57–03,000[5]
October 22Penn
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 48–0[6]
October 29Wesleyan
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 69–0[7]
November 5at Penn
  • University Athletic Grounds
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 95–0[8]
November 12at Harvard
L 0–12[9]
November 19vs. Yale
L 0–12[10]

References

  1. ^ "1887 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "Foot Ball at Princeton: The Lafayette Team Defeated in the Opening Game". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 9, 1887. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Princeton Defeats Rutgers". The New York Times. October 13, 1887. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Princeton Easily Outkicks Lehigh". The Times (Philadelphia). October 16, 1887. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "College Foot Ball: Princeton Wins in the Game with the University". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 20, 1887. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Cold Weather Sport: The University Football Team Defeated at Princeton". The Times (Philadelphia). October 23, 1887. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "The Football One Sided: Wesleyan Pluck Futile Against Princeton Play". The New York Times. October 30, 1887. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Princeton's Foot-Ball Victory: The Great Score of 95 to 0 With Pennsylvania". The Times (Philadelphia). November 6, 1887. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Harvard Winning At Football". New York Daily Tribune. November 13, 1887. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Yale Triumphs in the Mud". The Sun (New York). November 20, 1887. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
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