1905 Princeton Tigers football team

1905 Princeton Tigers football
Conference	Independent
Record	8–2
Head coach	Art Hillebrand (3rd season)
Captain	James Cooney
Home stadium	University Field

1905 Eastern college football independents records

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

The 1905 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1905 college football season. The team finished with an 8–2 record under third-year head coach Art Hillebrand and outscored its opponents by a total of 229 to 45.^[1] Princeton fullback Jim McCormick was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1905 College Football All-America Team.^[2] Tackle James Cooney was also selected as a first-team All-American by The New York Times.^[3]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 23	Villanova	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 41–0
September 30	Washington & Jefferson	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 23–0
October 7	Georgetown	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 34–0
October 11	Lehigh	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 29–6		[4]
October 14	Bucknell	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 48–0
October 21	Lafayette	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 22–4
October 28	at Columbia	American League Park New York, NY	W 12–0	10,000	[5]
November 4	Dartmouth	University Field Princeton, NJ	L 0–6
November 11	Cornell	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 16–6
November 18	at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 4–23	22,000	[6]

^[1]

References

1. "1905 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. 1905 Official NCAA Football Guide
4. "Princeton, 20; Lehigh 6". The Scranton Republican. October 12, 1905 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Princeton Triumphs Over Columbia's Team". The New York Times. October 29, 1905. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Yale Beats Princeton in Spectacular Game: Over 22,000 Cheer the Teams at New Haven". The New York Times. November 19, 1905. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.