1904 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1904 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1904 college football season. The team finished with an 8–2 record under second-year head coach Art Hillebrand and outscored its opponents by a total of 181 to 34.[1] Princeton tackle James Cooney was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1904 College Football All-America Team.[2]

1904 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–2
Head coach
CaptainW. L. Foulke
Home stadiumUniversity Field
Seasons
 1903
1905 
1904 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Penn  1200
Western U. of Penn.  1000
Dartmouth  701
Yale  1010
Amherst  910
Colgate  811
Carlisle  1020
Lafayette  820
Princeton  820
Army  720
Fordham  411
Harvard  721
Dickinson  831
Columbia  730
Cornell  730
Villanova  421
Syracuse  630
Swarthmore  630
Washington & Jefferson  531
Penn State  640
Temple  320
Brown  650
Bucknell  330
Springfield Training School  441
NYU  360
Holy Cross  252
Wesleyan  370
Geneva  142
Vermont  152
New Hampshire  250
Rutgers  162
Tufts  291
Lehigh  180
Franklin & Marshall  0100

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 28 DickinsonW 12–0[3]
October 1 Georgetown
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 10–0
October 5 Wesleyan
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 39–0
October 8 Washington & Jefferson
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 16–0[4]
October 12 Lafayette
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 5–0
October 15at NavyL 9–10
October 26 Lehigh
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 60–0
October 29at Cornell
W 18–6
November 5at ArmyW 12–6
November 12 Yale
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
L 0–12

References

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  1. "1904 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. "Princeton 12--Dickinson 0". The Sentinel. September 29, 1904. p. 3 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Gave Tigers Hard Tussle". The Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 9, 1904. p. 19. Retrieved September 28, 2021 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.