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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
Team W   L   T W   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.