1899 Princeton Tigers football team

1899 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Billingsley, Davis)
Conference	Independent
Record	12–1
Head coach	None
Captain	Big Bill Edwards
Home stadium	Osborne Field

1899 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					10	–	0	–	1
Lafayette			–					12	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					12	–	1	–	0
Buffalo			–					7	–	1	–	0
Boston College			–					8	–	1	–	1
Carlisle			–					9	–	2	–	0
Swarthmore			–					8	–	1	–	2
Washington & Jefferson			–					9	–	2	–	1
Wesleyan			–					7	–	2	–	0
Pittsburgh College			–					2	–	0	–	2
Villanova			–					7	–	2	–	1
Yale			–					7	–	2	–	1
Western Univ. of Penn.			–					3	–	1	–	1
Columbia			–					9	–	3	–	0
Fordham			–					3	–	1	–	0
Cornell			–					7	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					8	–	3	–	2
Brown			–					7	–	3	–	1
New Hampshire			–					4	–	2	–	0
Vermont			–					5	–	3	–	0
Tufts			–					7	–	4	–	0
Bucknell			–					6	–	4	–	0
Holy Cross			–					5	–	5	–	0
Syracuse			–					4	–	4	–	0
Drexel			–					3	–	3	–	0
Army			–					4	–	5	–	0
Colgate			–					4	–	5	–	0
Penn State			–					4	–	6	–	1
Frankin & Marshall			–					3	–	5	–	1
NYU			–					2	–	6	–	0
Temple			–					1	–	4	–	1
Dartmouth			–					2	–	7	–	0
Lehigh			–					2	–	9	–	0
Rutgers			–					2	–	9	–	0
Geneva			–					0	–	3	–	0

The 1899 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1899 college football season. The team finished with a 12–1 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report and Parke H. Davis. Harvard compiled a 10–0–1 record and was selected as the national champion by three other selectors.^[1][2] They outscored their opponents 185 to 21.^[2]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 30		at Maryland Athletic Club	Baltimore, MD	W 28–0
October 7		at Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	W 5–0
October 11		Lafayette	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ	W 12–0	1,500	[3]
October 14	2:45 p.m.	at Columbia	Manhattan Field New York, NY	W 11–0		[4]
October 18		Penn State	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ	W 12–0
October 21		at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	W 23–0
October 28		Lehigh	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ	W 17–0
November 1		at Cornell	Ithaca, NY	L 0–5
November 4	3:15 p.m.	Brown	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ	W 18–6	3,500	[5][6]
November 8	2:00 p.m.	North Carolina	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ	W 30–0
November 11	2:40 p.m.	vs. Carlisle	Manhattan Field New York, NY	W 12–0	8,000	[7]
November 18	3:00 p.m.	Washington & Jefferson	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ	W 6–0		[8]
November 25		at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 11–10

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References

1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
2. "1899 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
3. "Princeton Beats Lafayette". The New York Times. October 12, 1899. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "Princeton 11, Columbia 0". Democrat and Chronicle. Rochester, New York. October 15, 1899. p. 19. Retrieved May 2, 2020 – via Newspapers.com .
5. "Princeton Downed Brown". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. St. Louis, Missouri. November 5, 1899. p. 14. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
6. "Princeton Wins". Sunday Leader. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. November 5, 1899. p. 1. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
7. "Tigers Score Twice And Shut Out Indians". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, New York. November 12, 1899. p. 11. Retrieved October 18, 2024 – via Newspapers.com .
8. "Tigers Surprised". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 19, 1899. p. 14. Retrieved September 28, 2021 – via Newspapers.com .