1910 Princeton Tigers football team

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1910 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1
Head coach
Offensive schemeShort punt
CaptainEd Hart
Home stadiumUniversity Field
Seasons
← 1909
1911 →
1910 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Pittsburgh     9 0 0
Harvard     9 0 1
Penn     9 1 1
Princeton     7 1 0
Trinity (CT)     7 1 0
Ursinus     6 1 0
Rhode Island State     5 1 1
Lafayette     7 2 0
Army     6 2 0
Brown     7 2 1
Yale     6 2 2
Dartmouth     5 2 0
Cornell     5 2 1
Penn State     5 2 1
Colgate     4 2 1
Swarthmore     5 3 0
Franklin & Marshall     4 3 2
Syracuse     5 4 1
Rutgers     3 2 3
Carlisle     8 6 0
Holy Cross     3 3 2
Temple     3 3 0
Washington & Jefferson     3 3 1
Wesleyan     4 4 1
Geneva     2 5 2
NYU     2 4 1
Dickinson     3 7 0
Lehigh     2 6 1
Bucknell     2 6 0
Vermont     1 5 1
Carnegie Tech     1 6 1
Boston College     0 4 2
Tufts     1 7 1
Villanova     0 4 2

The 1910 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1910 college football season. The team finished with a 7–1 record under fourth-year head coach Bill Roper. The Tigers won their first seven games by a combined score of 98 to 0, but lost the final game of the season to rival Yale by a 5–3 score.[1] Princeton halfback Talbot Pendleton was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1910 College Football All-America Team,[2] and one other player, a guard named Thomas A. Wilson, was selected as a first-team honoree by at least one selector.[3][4]

Schedule[edit]

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 24 StevensW 18–0
October 1 Villanova
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 36–0
October 8 NYU
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 12–0
October 15at Lafayette Easton, PAW 3–0
October 22 Carlisle
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 6–0
October 29vs. DartmouthW 6–0
November 5 Holy Cross
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 17–0[5]
November 12 Yale
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
L 3–5

References[edit]

  1. ^ "1910 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. ^ "Paper Elevens of New York Critics: Kilpatrick Heads List of All Selections; Unanimous for Sprackling". Anaconda Standard. December 1, 1910.
  4. ^ "All American Team Includes Munk". The Cornell Daily Sun. November 28, 1910.
  5. ^ "Tigers Beat Holy Cross, 17-0". The Chicago Sunday Tribune. Chicago, Ill. November 6, 1910. sect. III, p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.