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1920 Princeton Tigers football
1920 Princeton Tigers football
Co-national champion (Boand, Davis)
Conference	Independent
Record	6–0–1
Head coach	Bill Roper (7th season);
Offensive scheme	Short punt
Captain	Henry Callahan
Home stadium	Palmer Stadium
Uniform
	Seasons ← 1919 1921 →

1920 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Boston College		–		8	–	0	–	0
Harvard		–		8	–	0	–	1
Princeton		–		6	–	0	–	1
Penn State		–		7	–	0	–	2
Pittsburgh		–		6	–	0	–	2
Army		–		7	–	2	–	0
Dartmouth		–		7	–	2	–	0
Cornell		–		6	–	2	–	0
Syracuse		–		6	–	2	–	1
Geneva		–		5	–	2	–	1
New Hampshire		–		5	–	2	–	1
Brown		–		6	–	3	–	0
Bucknell		–		6	–	3	–	0
Washington & Jefferson		–		6	–	3	–	1
Penn		–		6	–	4	–	0
Carnegie Tech		–		5	–	3	–	0
Lafayette		–		5	–	3	–	0
Holy Cross		–		5	–	3	–	0
Williams		–		5	–	3	–	0
Yale		–		5	–	3	–	0
Fordham		–		4	–	3	–	0
Franklin & Marshall		–		3	–	2	–	2
Boston University		–		4	–	3	–	1
Columbia		–		4	–	4	–	0
Duquesne		–		3	–	3	–	1
Vermont		–		3	–	5	–	0
NYU		–		2	–	5	–	1
Rhode Island State		–		0	–	4	–	4
Tufts		–		2	–	6	–	0
Rutgers		–		2	–	7	–	0
Buffalo		–		1	–	4	–	0
Colgate		–		1	–	5	–	2
Villanova		–		1	–	5	–	1
Drexel		–		0	–	6	–	0

The 1920 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Princeton University as an independent during the 1920 college football season. They finished with a 6–0–1 record, shut out four of seven opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 144 to 23. the sole blemish on the team's record was a 14–14 tie with Harvard in a road game in Boston.^[1] Bill Roper was the head coach for the seventh year. Keene Fitzpatrick, Frank Glick, and Jack Winn were assistant coaches.^[2] Henry Callahan was the team captain.

There was no contemporaneous system in 1920 for determining a national champion. However, Princeton was retroactively named as the co-national champion by the Boand System and Parke H. Davis.^[3] The 1920 California Golden Bears football team were selected as national champion by the majority of selectors.

Two Princeton players, quarterback Donold Lourie and tackle Stan Keck, were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1920 All-America team.^[4] Keck was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.^[5] Other notable players included fullback Hank Garrity and end Armant Legendre.

Band

The Princeton University Band played its first ever public performance at the Princeton-Maryland football game on October 9, 1920.^[6]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 2	Swarthmore	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 17–6
October 9	Maryland	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 35–0		^[7]
October 16	Washington and Lee	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 34–0
October 23	Navy	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 14–0
October 30	West Virginia	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 10–3	7,000	^[8]
November 6	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	T 14–14	44,000	^[9]^[10]
November 13	Yale	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 20–0		^[11]

^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "1920 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
^ Donal Grant Herring (November 24, 1920). "The Princeton Season Reviewed". Princeton Alumni Weekly. pp. 173–176.
^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
^ "Stan Keck". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
^ "History". Princeton University Band. Princeton University Band. Archived from the original on June 17, 2024. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
^ "Tigers Get 35 Points Against Marylanders". The Sunday Star. October 10, 1920. p. 26 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Princeton Rather Fortunate In Defeating West Virginia Mountaineers". The Pittsburg Press. October 31, 1920. p. Sporting 6 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Harvard Battles To Tie With Tigers". The New York Times. November 7, 1920. p. Sports 1 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Great Crowd Sees Gridiron Contest". The New York Times. November 7, 1920 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Neal R. OHara (November 14, 1920). "Yale Very Easy for Princeton". Boston Post. pp. 1, 19, 22 – via Newspapers.com.