1900 Princeton Tigers football team

1900 Princeton Tigers football
Conference	Independent
Record	8–3
Head coach	None
Captain	Williamson Pell
Home stadium	Osborne Field

1900 Eastern college football independents records

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

The 1900 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1900 college football season. The team finished with an 8–3 record. The Tigers won their first eight games by a combined score of 159 to 10, but then lost the last three games of the season against Cornell, Columbia and Yale.^[1] No Princeton players received first-team honors on the 1900 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 3	3:30 p.m.	Stevens	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ	W 40–0		[2][3]
October 6		Lehigh	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ	W 12–5		[4][5]
October 10		Penn State	Princeton, NJ	W 26–0		[6][7]
October 12		at Baltimore Medical College	Union Park Baltimore, MD	W 11–0	1,500	[8]
October 13		at Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	W 5–0		[9]
October 17		Syracuse	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ	W 43–0		[10]
October 20		at Lafayette	Easton, PA	W 5–0	4,000	[11]
October 27	3:10 p.m.	at Brown	Andrews Field Providence, RI	W 17–5	5,000	[12]
November 3	2:45 p.m.	Cornell	Princeton, NJ	L 0–12		[13]
November 6	2:45 p.m.	at Columbia	Columbia Field New York, NY	L 5–6	10,000	[14][15]
November 17	2:45 p.m.	Yale	University Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 5–29	15,000	[16][17][18]

References

1. "1900 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
2. "Tiger Ends Do Brilliant Work in First Game: Stevens Beaten 42 to 0 and Little and Roper Are the Stars". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 4, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.(other sources report score as 40-0)
3. "Princeton, 40; Stevens, 0". Daily Princetonian. October 4, 1890. p. 1.
4. "Princeton, 12; Lehigh, 5". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 7, 1900. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Tigers Scored on by Lehigh". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 7, 1900. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.(Osborne Field)
6. "Princeton's Strong Game". The New York Times. October 11, 1900. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
7. "Princeton, 26; State College, 0". Daily Princetonian. October 11, 1900. p. 1.
8. "Princeton by 11 to 0: Thus Results a Vicious Battle Against Baltimore Meds". The Sun (Baltimore). October 13, 1900. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Princeton, 5; Annapolis, 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 14, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
10. "Tigers Show Improvement". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 18, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
11. "Tigers Beat Lafayette: Princeton Wins a Hard Fight by a Score of 5 to 0". The Inter Ocean. October 21, 1900. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
12. "Princeton, 17; Brown, 5". New York Tribune. October 28, 1900. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
13. "Cornell Beat Princeton". The New York Times. November 4, 1900. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
14. "Columbia Is Victorious". The New York Times. November 7, 1900. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
15. "Columbia Beat Tigers in Closely Fought Game". The Philadelphia Times. November 7, 1900. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
16. "Yale Scores 29, Princeton 5". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 18, 1900. pp. 1, 15 – via Newspapers.com.
17. "Yale Buries Princeton: Sons of Eli Score 29 to 5 by the Tigers". The New York Times. November 18, 1900. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
18. "Eli Crushes the Tigers in a One-Sided Game". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 18, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.