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1919 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–2–1
Head coach
Offensive schemeShort punt
CaptainHack McGraw
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
Seasons
← 1918
1920 →
1919 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard   –   9 – 0 – 1
Penn State   –   7 – 1 – 0
Swarthmore   –   7 – 1 – 0
Dartmouth   –   6 – 1 – 1
Colgate   –   5 – 1 – 1
New Hampshire   –   7 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   6 – 2 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 2 – 0
Williams   –   6 – 2 – 0
Syracuse   –   8 – 3 – 0
Penn   –   6 – 2 – 1
Pittsburgh   –   6 – 2 – 1
Lehigh   –   6 – 3 – 0
Princeton   –   4 – 2 – 1
Geneva   –   4 – 2 – 2
Army   –   6 – 3 – 0
Boston College   –   5 – 3 – 0
Holy Cross   –   5 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   5 – 3 – 0
Yale   –   5 – 3 – 0
Villanova   –   5 – 3 – 1
Brown   –   5 – 4 – 1
Bucknell   –   5 – 4 – 1
NYU   –   4 – 4 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   3 – 4 – 0
Columbia   –   2 – 4 – 3
Cornell   –   3 – 5 – 0
Vermont   –   3 – 6 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   2 – 4 – 2
Tufts   –   2 – 5 – 0
Buffalo   –   0 – 5 – 1
Rhode Island State   –   0 – 8 – 1
Drexel   –   0 – 4 – 0

The 1919 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1919 college football season. The team finished with a 4–2–1 record under sixth-year head coach Bill Roper.[1] No Princeton players were selected as consensus first-team honorees on the 1919 College Football All-America Team, but halfback Murray Trimble was selected as a first-team All-American by the Reno Evening Gazette,[2] and a second-team All-American by Walter Camp.[3]

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 4 Trinity (CT)
W 28–0
October 11 Lafayette
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 9–6
October 18 Rochester
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 34–0
October 25 Colgate
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
L 0–7
November 1 West Virginia
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
L 0–25[4]
November 82:00 p.m. Harvard
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
T 10–1015,000[5][6][7][8]
November 15at Yale
W 13–6

References

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  1. ^ "1919 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "All-American Team Picked by Hahn for Gazette". Reno Evening Gazette. December 4, 1919.
  3. ^ "Walter Camp's All-American Team". Fitchburg Daily Sentinel. December 13, 1919.
  4. ^ "Princeton's defeat by West Virginia biggest surprise of season". The Hartford Daily Courant. November 2, 1919. Retrieved July 21, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Melville E. Webb Jr (November 8, 1919). "Harvard Favorite in Its Game with Tigers Today". The Boston Globe. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Grantland Rice (November 9, 1919). "Harvard Eleven Rallies in Closing and Earns 10 to 10 Draw With Princeton". New York Tribune. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ William D. Sullivan (November 9, 1919). "Harvard Fights Tigers to a Tie: Great Fourth Period Rally Staves Off Defeat". The Boston Globe. pp. 1, 17.
  8. ^ "Archival film of Princeton-Harvard game". Princeton University Archives. Retrieved March 26, 2022.
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