1906 Princeton Tigers football team

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1906 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Helms, NCF)
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–0–1
Head coach
Offensive schemeShort punt
CaptainHerb Dillon
Seasons
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1906 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton   –   9 – 0 – 1
Yale   –   9 – 0 – 1
Haverford   –   7 – 0 – 2
Harvard   –   10 – 1 – 0
Cornell   –   8 – 1 – 2
Lafayette   –   8 – 1 – 1
Penn State   –   8 – 1 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   9 – 2 – 0
Swarthmore   –   7 – 2 – 0
Drexel   –   6 – 2 – 0
Tufts   –   6 – 2 – 0
Penn   –   7 – 2 – 3
Carlisle   –   9 – 3 – 0
Brown   –   6 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   5 – 2 – 2
Dartmouth   –   6 – 3 – 1
Syracuse   –   6 – 3 – 0
Colgate   –   4 – 2 – 2
Vermont   –   5 – 4 – 0
Fordham   –   5 – 3 – 0
Western U. of Penn.   –   6 – 4 – 0
Holy Cross   –   4 – 3 – 1
Amherst   –   3 – 3 – 1
Lehigh   –   5 – 5 – 1
Bucknell   –   3 – 4 – 1
Dickinson   –   3 – 4 – 2
Carnegie Tech   –   2 – 3 – 2
Army   –   3 – 5 – 1
Frankin & Marshall   –   3 – 5 – 1
Wesleyan   –   2 – 4 – 1
New Hampshire   –   2 – 5 – 1
Villanova   –   3 – 7 – 0
Springfield Training School   –   1 – 5 – 3
NYU   –   0 – 4 – 0

The 1906 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1906 college football season. In their first season under head coach Bill Roper, the team compiled a 9–0–1 record, shut out eight of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 205 to 9.[1] Herb Dillon was the team captain.

There was no contemporaneous system in 1906 for determining a national champion. However, Princeton was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and National Championship Foundation.[2]

Three Princeton players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1906 All-America team: quarterback Edward Dillon; end Caspar Wister; and tackle James Cooney.[3] Other key players included fullback Jim McCormick, who was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.[4]

Schedule[edit]

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29Villanova
W 24–0[5]
October 3Stevens
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 22–0[6]
October 6Washington & Jefferson
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 6–0[7]
October 10Lehigh
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 52–0[8]
October 13at Navy
W 5–0[9]
October 20Bucknell
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 32–42,000[10]
October 27vs. Cornell
W 14–520,000[11]
November 3Dartmouth
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 42–08,000[12]
November 10at Army
W 8–0[13]
November 172:08 p.m.Yale
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
T 0–030,000[14][15][16]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "1906 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  3. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. ^ "Jim McCormick". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  5. ^ "Tigers Score at Will: Princeton Finds Forward Pass Useful in Beating Villanova". New York Tribune. September 30, 1906. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Tigers' Long Gains: They Bite Off Lot of Ground With End Runs". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 4, 1906. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Tigers Win From W. and J. 6-0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 7, 1906. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Princeton, 52; Lehigh, 0". Chicago Tribune. October 11, 1906. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Tigers Win by a Narrow Margin". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 14, 1906. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Tigers Eat Up Bucknell, 32 to 4". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 21, 1906. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Princeton Defeats Cornell in Fierce Battle by Score 14-5". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 28, 1906. p. 29 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Dartmouth Proves Easy: Hanover Team Overrated, Princeton Runs Up a Big Score". The New York Times. November 4, 1906. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Tigers Beat Cadets by Two Field Goals: Princeton Unable to Make Gains Against the Army Defense". The New York Times. November 11, 1906. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Princeton, 0; Yale, 0; End Of The Game". The Star-Independent. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. November 17, 1906. p. 1. Retrieved April 3, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  15. ^ "Big Football Battle Draw: Yale and Princeton Teams Fight in Vain to Score in Two Long Halves". New York Tribune. November 18, 1906. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Neither Side Could Score: The Princeton-Yale Football Game a Wonder". Chattanooga Daily Times. November 18, 1906. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
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