1915 Princeton Tigers football team

1915 Princeton Tigers football
Conference	Independent
Record	6–2
Head coach	John H. Rush (1st season)
Home stadium	Palmer Stadium

1915 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Cornell			–					9	–	0	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					8	–	0	–	0
Columbia			–					5	–	0	–	0
Harvard			–					8	–	1	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					7	–	1	–	0
Rutgers			–					7	–	1	–	0
Villanova			–					6	–	1	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					8	–	1	–	1
Colgate			–					5	–	1	–	0
Syracuse			–					9	–	1	–	2
Dartmouth			–					7	–	1	–	1
Tufts			–					5	–	1	–	2
Penn State			–					7	–	2	–	0
Lafayette			–					8	–	3	–	0
Princeton			–					6	–	2	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					6	–	2	–	0
Temple			–					3	–	1	–	1
Geneva			–					6	–	3	–	0
Wesleyan			–					6	–	3	–	0
Allegheny			–					5	–	3	–	0
Swarthmore			–					5	–	3	–	0
Army			–					5	–	3	–	1
Lehigh			–					6	–	4	–	0
Holy Cross			–					3	–	2	–	2
Brown			–					5	–	4	–	1
Fordham			–					4	–	4	–	0
NYU			–					4	–	4	–	1
Middlebury			–					3	–	4	–	2
Muhlenberg			–					4	–	5	–	0
Yale			–					4	–	5	–	0
Boston College			–					3	–	4	–	0
Penn			–					3	–	5	–	2
WPI			–					3	–	5	–	1
Buffalo			–					3	–	5	–	0
Carlisle			–					3	–	6	–	2
Rhode Island State			–					3	–	5	–	0
New Hampshire			–					3	–	6	–	1
Gettysburg			–					3	–	6	–	0
Rochester			–					3	–	6	–	0
Bucknell			–					2	–	6	–	3
Vermont			–					1	–	4	–	2
Williams			–					1	–	7	–	0

The 1915 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1915 college football season. The team finished with a 6–2 record under first-year head coach John H. Rush.^[1] No Princeton players were selected as consensus first-team honorees on the 1915 College Football All-America Team,^[2] but three players (halfback Dave Tibbott, fullback Edward H. Driggs, and end Jack "Red" Lamberton) were selected as first-team honorees by at least one selector.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 25	Georgetown	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 13–0		[3]
October 2	Rutgers	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 10–0
October 9	Syracuse	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 3–0	5,000
October 16	Lafayette	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 40–3
October 23	Dartmouth	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 30–7
October 30	Williams	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 27–0
November 6	Harvard	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 6–10
November 13	at Yale	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 7–13	65,000	[4]

References

1. "1915 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 down Georgetown after fierce tussle 13–0". The Plain Dealer. September 26, 1915. Retrieved July 5, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "Yale, Roused, Beats Tigers by 13 to 7". New York Tribune. November 14, 1915. pp. 1, 11 – via Newspapers.com.