1928 Princeton Tigers football team

1928 Princeton Tigers football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–1–2
Head coach	Bill Roper (15th season)
Captain	Charles Howe
Home stadium	Palmer Stadium

1928 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Boston College			–					9	–	0	–	0
West Chester			–					8	–	0	–	0
Villanova			–					7	–	0	–	1
Brown			–					8	–	1	–	0
No. 11 Penn			–					8	–	1	–	0
No. 6 Carnegie Tech			–					7	–	1	–	0
No. 9 Army			–					8	–	2	–	0
Drexel			–					8	–	2	–	0
No. 10 NYU			–					8	–	2	–	0
Temple			–					7	–	1	–	2
Lafayette			–					6	–	1	–	2
Princeton			–					5	–	1	–	2
CCNY			–					4	–	1	–	2
Pittsburgh			–					6	–	2	–	1
Harvard			–					5	–	2	–	1
Tufts			–					5	–	2	–	1
Colgate			–					6	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					6	–	3	–	0
Bucknell			–					5	–	2	–	3
Columbia			–					5	–	3	–	1
Boston University			–					3	–	3	–	2
Cornell			–					3	–	3	–	2
Syracuse			–					4	–	4	–	1
Yale			–					4	–	4	–	0
Fordham			–					4	–	5	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					4	–	5	–	0
Penn State			–					3	–	5	–	1
Lehigh			–					3	–	6	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					2	–	5	–	2
Providence			–					1	–	5	–	3
Vermont			–					1	–	7	–	2
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1928 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1928 college football season. The Tigers finished with a 5–1–2 record under 15th-year head coach Bill Roper.^[1] Princeton center Charles Howe was selected by the Associated Press as a first-team honoree on the 1928 College Football All-America Team.^[2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 6	Vermont	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 50–0		[3]
October 13	Virginia	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	T 0–0		[4]
October 20	Lehigh	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 47–0
October 27	Cornell	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 3–0
November 3	at Ohio State	Ohio Stadium Columbus, OH	T 6–6	74,000	[5]
November 10	Washington and Lee	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 25–12
November 17	Yale	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 12–2	60,000	[6]
November 24	vs. Navy	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–9		[7]

References

1. "1928 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
2. Alan J. Gould (December 8, 1928). "Associated Press Gives Views on America's Best Gridders". The Salt Lake Tribune.
3. "Tigers claw Vermonters at will in 50–0 parade". Daily News. October 7, 1928. Retrieved June 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "Tigers Held To 0-0 Tie By U. of Virginia: Roper Machine Unable to Crash Cavalier Line". New York Daily News. October 14, 1928. p. 68 – via Newspapers.com.
5. Grantland Rice (November 4, 1928). "Tigers Battle Ohio to 6-All Deadlock Before 74,000 Fans". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. 1S, 2S – via Newspapers.com.
6. Perry Lewis (November 18, 1928). "Tigers Top Eli: Tiger Thrusts Rend Bulldogs Before 60,000". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. 1S, 2S – via Newspapers.com.
7. Perry Lewiss (November 25, 1928). "Navy Vanquishes Tiger Foemen by 9 to 0: "Whitey" Lloyd Ties Knot in Tiger's Tail with 76-Yard Gallop". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 1S – via Newspapers.com.