1913 Princeton Tigers football team

1913 Princeton Tigers football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–2–1
Head coach	Walter G. Andrews (1st season)
Captain	Hobey Baker
Home stadium	University Field

1913 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					9	–	0	–	0
Carlisle			–					10	–	1	–	1
Washington & Jefferson			–					10	–	0	–	1
Army			–					8	–	1	–	0
Dartmouth			–					7	–	1	–	0
Tufts			–					7	–	1	–	0
Colgate			–					6	–	1	–	1
Franklin & Marshall			–					6	–	2	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					6	–	2	–	1
Princeton			–					5	–	2	–	1
Yale			–					5	–	2	–	3
Rutgers			–					6	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					6	–	3	–	1
Villanova			–					4	–	2	–	1
Lehigh			–					5	–	3	–	0
Bucknell			–					6	–	4	–	0
Cornell			–					5	–	4	–	1
Boston College			–					4	–	3	–	1
Syracuse			–					6	–	4	–	0
Fordham			–					3	–	3	–	2
Geneva			–					4	–	4	–	0
Lafayette			–					4	–	5	–	1
Brown			–					4	–	5	–	0
Duquesne			–					3	–	5	–	1
Carnegie Tech			–					2	–	4	–	1
Holy Cross			–					3	–	6	–	0
New Hampshire			–					2	–	4	–	0
Temple			–					1	–	3	–	2
Penn State			–					2	–	6	–	0
Rhode Island State			–					2	–	6	–	0
Vermont			–					1	–	5	–	0
NYU			–					0	–	8	–	0

The 1913 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1913 college football season. The team finished with a 5–2–1 record under first-year head coach Walter G. Andrews.^[1] Princeton tackle Harold Ballin was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1913 College Football All-America Team.^[2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 27	Rutgers	University Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 14–3		[3]
October 4	Fordham	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 69–0		[4]
October 11	Bucknell	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 28–6		[5]
October 18	Syracuse	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 13–0
October 25	Dartmouth	University Field Princeton, NJ	L 0–6
November 1	Holy Cross	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 54–0		[6]
November 8	Harvard	University Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 0–3	25,000	[7]
November 15	at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	T 3–3

References

1. "1913 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. "Talman of Rutgers scores on Princeton". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. September 28, 1913. Retrieved December 2, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "Princeton Plays Some "Real" Football". New York Tribune. October 5, 1913 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Bucknell Hits Tiger Goal Line". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 12, 1913. p. Sporting 6 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Tigers' New Plays Beat Holy Cross". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. November 2, 1913. p. S2 – via Newspapers.com.
7. Melville E. Webb Jr. (November 9, 1913). "Harvard Breaks an Old Tradition: Tigers Beaten on Own Field for First Time by Crimson". The Boston Globe. pp. 1, 14 – via Newspapers.com.