The 1887 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1887 college football season . The team finished with a 7–2 record. The Tigers held their first nine opponents scoreless, winning those games by a combined 420 to 0 score. The team then lost the last two games of the season against Harvard and Yale .[1]
Schedule [ ]
Date
Opponent
Location
Result
Attendance
Source
October 8
Lafayette University Field , Princeton, NJ W 47–0[2]
October 12
at Rutgers (rivalry )
College Field, New Brunswick, NJ
W 30–0[3]
October 15
Lehigh
University Field, Princeton, NJ
W 80–0[4]
October 19
at Penn (rivalry )
Philadelphia W 57–03,000
[5]
October 22
Penn (rivalry)
University Field, Princeton, NJ
W 48–0[6]
October 29
[[{{{school}}}|Wesleyan]]
University Field, Princeton, NJ
W 69–0[7]
November 5
at Penn (rivalry)
University Athletic Grounds, Philadelphia
W 95–0[8]
November 12
at Harvard (rivalry )
Jarvis Field, Cambridge, MA
L 0–12[9]
November 19
vs. Yale (rivalry )
Polo Grounds , New York, NY L 0–12[10]
References [ ]
↑ "1887 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results" . SR/College Football . Sports Reference LLC. https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/princeton/1887-schedule.html . Retrieved February 27, 2017 .↑ "Foot Ball at Princeton: The Lafayette Team Defeated in the Opening Game" . The Brooklyn Daily Eagle : p. 9. October 9, 1887. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16474674/foot_ball_at_princeton_the_lafayette/ .↑ "Princeton Defeats Rutgers" . The New York Times : p. 1. October 13, 1887. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16474733/princeton_defeats_rutgers/ .↑ "Princeton Easily Outkicks Lehigh" . The Times (Philadelphia) : p. 3. October 16, 1887. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16474786/princeton_easily_outkicks_lehigh/ .↑ "College Foot Ball: Princeton Wins in the Game with the University" . The Philadelphia Inquirer : p. 3. October 20, 1887. https://www.newspapers.com/image/167589070/?terms=princeton%2Bphiladelphia .↑ "Cold Weather Sport: The University Football Team Defeated at Princeton" . The Times (Philadelphia) : p. 2. October 23, 1887. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16474973/cold_weather_sport_the_university/ .↑ "The Football One Sided: Wesleyan Pluck Futile Against Princeton Play" . The New York Times : p. 2. October 30, 1887. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16475130/the_football_one_sided_wesleyan_pluck/ .↑ "Princeton's Foot-Ball Victory: The Great Score of 95 to 0 With Pennsylvania" . The Times (Philadelphia) : p. 3. November 6, 1887. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16475250/princetons_football_victory_the/ .↑ "Harvard Winning At Football" . New York Daily Tribune : p. 16. November 13, 1887. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15324678/harvard_winning_at_football/ .↑ "Yale Triumphs in the Mud" . The Sun (New York) : p. 11. November 20, 1887. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15026017/yale_triumphs_in_the_mud/ .
