The 1888 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1888 college football season . The team compiled an 11–1 record. The team held its first ten opponents scoreless, winning those games by a combined 589 to 0 score. The team's sole loss was by a 10-0 score in the final game of the season against an undefeated Yale team that has been recognized as the 1888 national champion.[1]
The practice of selecting All-American football teams began the following year with the 1890 College Football All-America Team . However, Princeton's roster in 1888 included a number of star players, including fullback Knowlton "Snake" Ames , end Jesse Riggs , right tackle Hector Cowan .[2]
Schedule [ ]
Date
Opponent
Location
Result
Attendance
Source
September 29
Lehigh
University Field , Princeton, NJ W 75–0[3]
October 7
vs. Brooklyn Crescents
Staten Island A.C. Grounds, West New Brighton, Staten Island
W 31–0[4]
October 10
Penn (rivalry )University Field, Princeton, NJ
W 63–0[5]
October 13
[[{{{school}}}|Stevens]]
University Field, Princeton, NJ
W 80–0[6]
October 17
at Rutgers (rivalry )
College Field, New Brunswick, NJ
W 78–0[7]
October 20
Penn (rivalry)
University Field, Princeton, NJ
W 38–0
October 24
at Rutgers (rivalry)
College Field, New Brunswick, NJ
W 82–0[8]
November 3
Johns Hopkins
University Field, Princeton, NJ
W 10–0[9]
November 6
vs. [[{{{school}}}|Wesleyan]]
Polo Grounds , New York, NY W 44–02,500
[10]
November 10
at Penn (rivalry )
University Athletic Grounds, Philadelphia
W 4–0
November 17
Harvard (rivalry )University Field, Princeton, NJ
W 18–6[11] [12]
November 24
vs. Yale (rivalry )
Polo Grounds, New York, NY
L 0–1010,000-20,000
[13]
References [ ]
↑ "1888 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results" . SR/College Football . Sports Reference LLC. https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/princeton/1888-schedule.html . Retrieved February 27, 2017 .↑ Parke H. Davis (1917). Football, The American Intercollegiate Game . https://books.google.com/books?id=DbgHAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false .↑ "Lehigh Defeated by Princeton: Opening the Football Season with a Game of Seventy-Five to Nothing" . New York Daily Tribune : p. 16. September 30, 1888. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16480728/lehigh_defeated_in_princeton/ .↑ "Football in the Rain: The Jerseymen Defeat Brooklyn Players at Staten Island" . The Brooklyn Daily Eagle : p. 6. October 8, 1888. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16480931/football_in_the_rain_the_jerseymen/ .↑ "Princeton Wins Again at Football" . The New York Times : p. 1. October 11, 1888. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16481019/princeton_wins_again_at_football/ .↑ "Princeton Beats Stevens Institute" . New York Daily Tribune : p. 4. October 14, 1888. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16481087/princeton_beats_stevens_institute/ .↑ "Princeton Outkicks Rutgers" . The Saint Paul Globe : p. 5. October 18, 1888. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16484891/princeton_outkicks_rutgers/ .↑ "Football by College Players" . New York Tribune : p. 10. October 25, 1888. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16481221/football_by_college_players/ .↑ "Princeton Beats Johns Hopkins" . The Times (Philadelphia) : p. 6. November 4, 1888. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16484745/princeton_beats_johns_hopkins/ .↑ "Princeton Has a Good Team: She Defeats Wesleyan at Football by 44 to 0" . The World : p. 2. November 7, 1888. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16478752/princeton_has_a_good_team_she_defeats/ .↑ "Triumphant Princeton" . New York Daily Tribune : p. 2. November 18, 1888. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15026089/triumphant_princeton/ .↑ "'Rah! 'Rah! 'Rah!Siss-s-s-s Boom Ah! Princeton" . The Boston Daily Globe : p. 4. November 18, 1888. https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-sunday-globe-nov-18-1888-p-4/ .↑ "'Twas a Physical Cyclone: Yale Wins the Great Football Match" . The New York Times : p. 2. November 25, 1888. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16481370/twas_a_physical_cyclone_yale_wins_the/ .
