1926 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–1–1
Head coach
CaptainJohn Davis
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
1926 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 5 Lafayette    9 0 0
No. 10 Brown    9 0 1
NYU    8 1 0
No. 9 Army    7 1 1
Washington & Jefferson    7 1 1
Boston College    6 0 2
No. 10 Penn    7 1 1
Cornell    6 1 1
Princeton    5 1 1
Carnegie Tech    7 2 0
Springfield    6 2 0
Syracuse    7 2 1
Villanova    6 2 1
Colgate    5 2 2
Columbia    6 3 0
Pittsburgh    5 2 2
CCNY    5 3 0
Temple    5 3 0
Penn State    5 4 0
Tufts    4 4 0
Yale    4 4 0
Bucknell    4 5 1
Fordham    3 4 1
Harvard    3 5 0
Rutgers    3 6 0
Vermont    3 6 0
Drexel    2 5 0
Boston University    2 6 0
Lehigh    1 8 0
Franklin & Marshall    0 8 1
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1926 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1926 college football season. The team finished with a 5–1–1 record under 13th-year head coach Bill Roper. The Tigers' sole loss of the season was to Navy by a 27–13 score.[1] No Princeton players were selected as first-team honorees on the 1926 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2 AmherstW 14–7
October 9 Washington and Lee
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
T 7–7 [2]
October 16 Navy
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
L 13–27 [3]
October 23 Lehigh
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 7–6 [4]
October 30 Swarthmore
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 27–0
November 6at Harvard W 12–055,000[5]
November 13 Yale
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 10–755,000[6]

References

  1. "1926 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. "Washington and Lee draws with Princeton". Allentown Morning Call. October 10, 1926. Retrieved December 9, 2023 via Newspapers.com.
  3. W. O. McGeehan (October 17, 1926). "Navy Team Beats Princeton: Middies Make Strong Finish". The Baltimore Sun. pp. Sports 1, 2 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Princeton Tigers Pressed To Defeat Lehigh, 7-6". New York Daily News. October 24, 1926. p. 43 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Tigers Triumph Over Harvard in First "Big 3" Football Game: Harvard's Hopes Are Higher Than Ability as Princeton Sweeps on to 12-0 Victory". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 7, 1926. pp. C1, C2 via Newspapers.com.
  6. William J. Lee (November 14, 1926). "Princeton Trounces Yale, 10-7: 55,000 People See Game That Decides Possible Final Championship of Famous 'Big Three'". The Hartford Courant. pp. I-1, IV-1 via Newspapers.com.
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