1905 Princeton Tigers football team

1905 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–2
Head coach
CaptainJames Cooney
Home stadiumUniversity Field
1905 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   10 – 0 – 0
Penn   –   12 – 0 – 1
Temple   –   2 – 0 – 1
Dartmouth   –   7 – 1 – 2
Swarthmore   –   7 – 1 – 0
Western U. of Penn.   –   10 – 2 – 0
  –   8 – 2 – 0
Harvard   –   8 – 2 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   10 – 3 – 0
Lafayette   –   7 – 2 – 1
Wesleyan   –   7 – 2 – 1
Carlisle   –   10 – 4 – 0
Penn State   –   8 – 3 – 0
Syracuse   –   8 – 3 – 0
Fordham   –   5 – 2 – 0
Amherst   –   3 – 1 – 2
Holy Cross   –   6 – 3 – 0
Brown   –   7 – 4 – 0
Tufts   –   5 – 3 – 0
Vermont   –   6 – 4 – 1
Cornell   –   6 – 4 – 0
Colgate   –   5 – 4 – 0
Columbia   –   4 – 3 – 2
Army   –   4 – 4 – 1
Bucknell   –   5 – 5 – 0
Dickinson   –   4 – 4 – 0
NYU   –   3 – 3 – 1
Lehigh   –   6 – 7 – 0
Frankin & Marshall   –   4 – 6 – 0
Geneva   –   4 – 6 – 0
New Hampshire   –   2 – 4 – 2
Springfield Training School   –   3 – 5 – 0
Rutgers   –   3 – 6 – 0
Villanova   –   3 – 7 – 0
Drexel   –   1 – 7 – 0

The 1905 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1905 college football season. The team finished with an 8–2 record under third-year head coach Art Hillebrand and outscored its opponents by a total of 229 to 45.[1] Princeton fullback Jim McCormick was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1905 College Football All-America Team.[2] Tackle James Cooney was also selected as a first-team All-American by The New York Times.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 23VillanovaW 41–0
September 30Washington & Jefferson
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 23–0
October 7Georgetown
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 34–0
October 11Lehigh
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 29–6[4]
October 14Bucknell
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 48–0
October 21Lafayette
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 22–4
October 28at ColumbiaW 12–010,000[5]
November 4Dartmouth
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
L 0–6
November 11Cornell
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 16–6
November 18at YaleL 4–2322,000[6]

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References

  1. ^ a b "1905 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. ^ 1905 Official NCAA Football Guide
  4. ^ "Princeton, 20; Lehigh 6". The Scranton Republican. October 12, 1905 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Princeton Triumphs Over Columbia's Team". The New York Times. October 29, 1905. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Yale Beats Princeton in Spectacular Game: Over 22,000 Cheer the Teams at New Haven". The New York Times. November 19, 1905. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.