1906 Princeton Tigers football team

1906 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Helms, NCF)
Conference	Independent
Record	9–0–1
Head coach	Bill Roper (1st season)
Offensive scheme	Short punt
Captain	Herb Dillon

1906 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Princeton			–					9	–	0	–	1
Yale			–					9	–	0	–	1
Haverford			–					7	–	0	–	2
Harvard			–					10	–	1	–	0
Cornell			–					8	–	1	–	2
Lafayette			–					8	–	1	–	1
Penn State			–					8	–	1	–	1
Washington & Jefferson			–					9	–	2	–	0
Swarthmore			–					7	–	2	–	0
Drexel			–					6	–	2	–	0
Tufts			–					6	–	2	–	0
Penn			–					7	–	2	–	3
Carlisle			–					9	–	3	–	0
Brown			–					6	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					5	–	2	–	2
Dartmouth			–					6	–	3	–	1
Syracuse			–					6	–	3	–	0
Colgate			–					4	–	2	–	2
Vermont			–					5	–	4	–	0
Fordham			–					5	–	3	–	0
Western U. of Penn.			–					6	–	4	–	0
Holy Cross			–					4	–	3	–	1
Amherst			–					3	–	3	–	1
Lehigh			–					5	–	5	–	1
Bucknell			–					3	–	4	–	1
Dickinson			–					3	–	4	–	2
Carnegie Tech			–					2	–	3	–	2
Army			–					3	–	5	–	1
Frankin & Marshall			–					3	–	5	–	1
Wesleyan			–					2	–	4	–	1
New Hampshire			–					2	–	5	–	1
Villanova			–					3	–	7	–	0
Springfield Training School			–					1	–	5	–	3
NYU			–					0	–	4	–	0

The 1906 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1906 college football season. In their first season under head coach Bill Roper, the team compiled a 9–0–1 record, shut out eight of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 205 to 9.^[1] Herb Dillon was the team captain.

There was no contemporaneous system in 1906 for determining a national champion. However, Princeton was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and National Championship Foundation.^[2]

Three Princeton players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1906 All-America team: quarterback Edward Dillon; end Caspar Wister; and tackle James Cooney.^[3] Other key players included fullback Jim McCormick, who was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.^[4]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 29		Villanova	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 24–0		[5]
October 3		Stevens	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 22–0		[6]
October 6		Washington & Jefferson	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 6–0		[7]
October 10		Lehigh	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 52–0		[8]
October 13		at Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	W 5–0		[9]
October 20		Bucknell	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 32–4	2,000	[10]
October 27		vs. Cornell	Polo Grounds New York, NY	W 14–5	20,000	[11]
November 3		Dartmouth	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 42–0	8,000	[12]
November 10		at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	W 8–0		[13]
November 17	2:08 p.m.	Yale	University Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	T 0–0	30,000	[14][15][16]

References

1. "1906 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
2. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
3. "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
4. "Jim McCormick". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
5. "Tigers Score at Will: Princeton Finds Forward Pass Useful in Beating Villanova". New York Tribune. September 30, 1906. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Tigers' Long Gains: They Bite Off Lot of Ground With End Runs". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 4, 1906. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
7. "Tigers Win From W. and J. 6-0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 7, 1906. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "Princeton, 52; Lehigh, 0". Chicago Tribune. October 11, 1906. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Tigers Win by a Narrow Margin". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 14, 1906. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
10. "Tigers Eat Up Bucknell, 32 to 4". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 21, 1906. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
11. "Princeton Defeats Cornell in Fierce Battle by Score 14-5". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 28, 1906. p. 29 – via Newspapers.com.
12. "Dartmouth Proves Easy: Hanover Team Overrated, Princeton Runs Up a Big Score". The New York Times. November 4, 1906. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
13. "Tigers Beat Cadets by Two Field Goals: Princeton Unable to Make Gains Against the Army Defense". The New York Times. November 11, 1906. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
14. "Princeton, 0; Yale, 0; End Of The Game". The Star-Independent. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. November 17, 1906. p. 1. Retrieved April 3, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
15. "Big Football Battle Draw: Yale and Princeton Teams Fight in Vain to Score in Two Long Halves". New York Tribune. November 18, 1906. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
16. "Neither Side Could Score: The Princeton-Yale Football Game a Wonder". Chattanooga Daily Times. November 18, 1906. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.