1912 Princeton Tigers football team

1912 Princeton Tigers football
Conference	Independent
Record	7–1–1
Head coach	Logan Cunningham (1st season)
Captain	Tal Pendleton
Home stadium	University Field

1912 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					9	–	0	–	0
Penn State			–					8	–	0	–	0
Carlisle			–					12	–	1	–	1
Maine			–					7	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					7	–	1	–	1
Swarthmore			–					7	–	1	–	1
Yale			–					7	–	1	–	1
Lehigh			–					9	–	2	–	0
Dartmouth			–					7	–	2	–	0
Wesleyan			–					7	–	2	–	0
Colgate			–					5	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					8	–	3	–	1
Rhode Island State			–					6	–	3	–	0
Bucknell			–					6	–	3	–	1
Temple			–					3	–	2	–	0
Penn			–					7	–	4	–	0
Army			–					5	–	3	–	0
Brown			–					6	–	4	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					6	–	4	–	0
Holy Cross			–					4	–	3	–	1
Rutgers			–					5	–	4	–	0
Tufts			–					5	–	4	–	0
Fordham			–					4	–	4	–	0
Villanova			–					3	–	3	–	0
Morris Harvey			–					2	–	2	–	0
Lafayette			–					4	–	5	–	1
Syracuse			–					4	–	5	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					3	–	4	–	1
New Hampshire			–					3	–	4	–	1
Geneva			–					3	–	4	–	0
Vermont			–					3	–	5	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					3	–	6	–	0
Boston College			–					2	–	4	–	1
Cornell			–					3	–	7	–	0
NYU			–					2	–	6	–	0

The 1912 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1912 college football season. The team finished with a 7–1–1 record under first-year head coach Walter G. Andrews, outscoring opponents by a total of 322 to 35 with the sole loss being to Harvard by 16–6 score. Princeton W. John Logan was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1912 College Football All-America Team, and five other players (halfback Hobey Baker, fullback Wallace "Butch" De Witt, guard Rip Shenk, and tackles Phillips and Penfield) were selected as first-team honorees by at least one selector.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 28	Stevens	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 65–0
October 2	Rutgers	University Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 41–6
October 5	Lehigh	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 35–0
October 12	VPI	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 31–0
October 19	Syracuse	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 62–0
October 26	Dartmouth	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 22–7
November 2	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 6–16	30,000
November 9	NYU	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 54–0
November 16	Yale	University Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	T 6–6