1916 Princeton Tigers football team

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.

1916 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–2
Head coach
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
Seasons
 1915
1917 
1916 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Army  900
Pittsburgh  800
Brown  810
Colgate  810
Yale  810
Fordham  611
Swarthmore  611
Penn State  820
Washington & Jefferson  820
Boston College  620
Cornell  620
Princeton  620
Lehigh  621
Dartmouth  522
Harvard  730
Penn  731
Temple  312
Tufts  530
Carnegie Tech  430
Rutgers  322
NYU  431
Syracuse  540
Holy Cross  450
Vermont  450
Rhode Island State  341
New Hampshire  352
Geneva  252
Carlisle  131
Lafayette  261
Bucknell  390
Columbia  152
Franklin & Marshall  170
Villanova  180

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.