The 1892 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1892 college football season . The team finished with a 12–2 record. The Tigers recorded 12 shutouts and outscored opponents by a combined total of 473 to 18.[1] Yale .[2]
Two Princeton players, quarterback Philip King and guard Art Wheeler , were consensus first-team honorees on the 1892 College Football All-America Team .[3] College Football Hall of Fame .
Schedule [ ]
Date
Opponent
Location
Result
Attendance
Source
October 1
Rutgers (rivalry )University Field , Princeton, NJ W 30–02,000
[4]
October 5
at Lehigh
South Bethlehem, PA W 16–0[5]
October 8
Lafayette University Field, Princeton, NJ
W 40–01,200
[6]
October 14
at Columbia Athletic Club
Washington, D.C. W 42–01,500
[7]
October 15
at Navy
Worden Field , Annapolis, MD W 28–0900
[8]
October 19
Lehigh
University Field, Princeton, NJ
W 52–0850
[9]
October 21
at New York Athletic Club
Polo Grounds , New York, NYW 40–02,000
[10]
October 22
at Crescent Athletic Club
Eastern Park , Brooklyn W 42–0[11]
October 27
Manhattan Athletic Club University Field, Princeton, NJ
W 46–0[12]
October 29
vs. [[{{{school}}}|Wesleyan]]
Manhattan Field, New York, NY
W 60–03,000
[13]
November 2
Chicago Athletic Ass'n University Field, Princeton, NJ
W 12–03,000
[14] [15]
November 5
at Penn (rivalry )
Germantown Cricket Club Germantown, Philadelphia [16] L 4–615,000
[17]
November 8
at Orange Athletic Club
Orange Oval , East Orange, NJ W 23–0[18]
November 24
vs. Yale (rivalry )
Manhattan Field, New York, NY
L 0–1235,000
[19]
References [ ]
↑ "1892 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results" . SR/College Football . Sports Reference LLC. https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/princeton/1892-schedule.html . Retrieved February 27, 2017 .↑ "All-Time Princeton Results" . Princeton University. http://goprincetontigers.com/documents/2017/7/7//All_Time_FB_Results.pdf . Retrieved January 2, 2018 .↑ "Award Winners" . NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4. http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2012/Awards.pdf .↑ "Princeton, 30; Rutgers, 0" . The World (New York) : p. 9. October 2, 1892. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16512388/princeton_30_rutgers_0/ .↑ "The Big Tigers Won: Princeton Defeats Lehigh University at Football, 16 to 0" . The New York Times : p. 3. October 6, 1892. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16512543/the_big_tigers_won_princeton_defeats/ .↑ "Princeton vs. Lafayette: The Tigers Roll Up a Score of Forty Against None for Their Opponents" . The Times (Philadelphia) : p. 14. October 9, 1892. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16512641/princeton_vs_lafayette_the_tigers/ .↑ "A Stubborn Contest: The Tigers Won, but They Had No Easy Victory" . The Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) : p. 12. October 15, 1892. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16512266/a_stubborn_contest_the_tigers_won_but/ .↑ "The Foot-Ball Field" . The Sun (Baltimore) : p. 7. October 17, 1892. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16513120/the_football_field/ .↑ "Princeton, 52 to 0: Lehigh Beaten at Football in a Wonderful Game" . The World (New York) : p. 1. October 19, 1892. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16513275/princeton_52_to_0_lehigh_beaten_at/ .↑ "Victory for Princeton: Her Football Team Plays at the Polo Grounds" . The New York Times : p. 3. October 22, 1892. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16513452/victory_for_princeton_her_football/ .↑ "Play Fine Foot Ball: Princetons' One Sided Contest With Crescent Kickers" . The Brooklyn Daily Eagle : p. 8. October 23, 1892. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16512002/play_fine_foot_ball_princetons_one/ .↑ "Princeton's Tigers Played Poorly: They, However, Defeated the Manhattan Athletics 46 to 0" . Chicago Tribune : p. 7. October 27, 1892. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16513777/princetons_tigers_played_poorly_they/ .↑ "Princeton, 60; Wesleyan, 0" . The Brooklyn Daily Eagle : p. 8. October 30, 1892. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16511795/princeton_60_wesleyan_0/ .↑ "Princeton's Hard Battle: Difficult Work to Beat the Strong Chicago Team" . The New York Times : p. 3. November 3, 1892. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16511612/princetons_hard_battle_difficult_work/ .↑ "Lose To Princeton: Chicago Kickers Retire with Honorable Defeat" . The Inter Ocean : p. 6. November 3, 1892. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16514980/lose_to_princeton/ .↑ Some sources, including SR/College Football, refer to the game having been played at Manheim, Pennsylvania , some 80 miles west of Philadelphia. However, the contemporaneous account in The Times clearly states that the game was played at the Germantown Cricket Club which was located on Manheim Street in the Germantown section of Philadelphia.
↑ "The Tigers Downed: The Red and Blue Waves Above the Orange and Black" . The Times (Philadelphia) : p. 1. November 6, 1892. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16514622/the_tigers_downed_the_red_and_blue/ .↑ "Princeton Defeats Orange, 23 to 0, on the Orange Oval". The World (New York) : p. 1. November 8, 1892. ↑ "Yale Again Triumphant: Old Nassau's Colors Lowered to the Blue" . The New York Times : p. 1. November 25, 1892. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16511258/yale_again_triumphant_old_nassaus/ .
