1919 Princeton Tigers football team

1919 Princeton Tigers football
Conference	Independent
Record	4–2–1
Head coach	Bill Roper (6th season)
Offensive scheme	Short punt
Captain	Hack McGraw
Home stadium	Palmer Stadium

1919 Eastern college football independents records

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

The 1919 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1919 college football season. The team finished with a 4–2–1 record under sixth-year head coach Bill Roper.^[1] No Princeton players were selected as consensus first-team honorees on the 1919 College Football All-America Team, but halfback Murray Trimble was selected as a first-team All-American by the Reno Evening Gazette,^[2] and a second-team All-American by Walter Camp.^[3]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 4		Trinity (CT)	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 28–0
October 11		Lafayette	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 9–6
October 18		Rochester	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 34–0
October 25		Colgate	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	L 0–7
November 1		West Virginia	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	L 0–25		[4]
November 8	2:00 p.m.	Harvard	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	T 10–10	15,000	[5][6][7][8]
November 15		at Yale	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 13–6
All times are in Eastern time

References

1. "1919 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
2. "All-American Team Picked by Hahn for Gazette". Reno Evening Gazette. December 4, 1919.
3. "Walter Camp's All-American Team". Fitchburg Daily Sentinel. December 13, 1919.
4. "Princeton's defeat by West Virginia biggest surprise of season". The Hartford Daily Courant. November 2, 1919. Retrieved July 21, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
5. Melville E. Webb Jr (November 8, 1919). "Harvard Favorite in Its Game with Tigers Today". The Boston Globe. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
6. Grantland Rice (November 9, 1919). "Harvard Eleven Rallies in Closing and Earns 10 to 10 Draw With Princeton". New York Tribune. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.
7. William D. Sullivan (November 9, 1919). "Harvard Fights Tigers to a Tie: Great Fourth Period Rally Staves Off Defeat". The Boston Globe. pp. 1, 17.
8. "Archival film of Princeton-Harvard game". Princeton University Archives. Retrieved March 26, 2022.