The 1895 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1895 college football season . The team finished with a 10–1–1 record. The Tigers recorded nine shutouts and outscored opponents by a combined score of 224 to 28. The team's sole loss was in the last game of the season by a 20-10 score against Yale .[1]
Two Princeton players, tackle Langdon Lea and guard Dudley Riggs , were consensus first-team honorees on the 1895 College Football All-America Team .[2]
Schedule [ ]
Date
Opponent
Location
Result
Attendance
Source
October 2
at Elizabeth Athletic Club
Elizabeth, NJ W 40–0[3]
October 5
Rutgers (rivalry )University Field , Princeton, NJ W 22–0[4]
October 9
vs. Virginia
Catonsville Country Club, Baltimore
W 36–03,000
[5]
October 12
Lafayette University Field, Princeton, NJ
W 14–0[6]
October 15
at Lawrenceville
Lawrenceville Grounds, Lawrenceville, NJ
W 38–0[7]
October 17
Princeton Seminary University Field, Princeton, NJ
W 10–4[8]
October 19
vs. Lehigh
Philadelphia Ball Park , Philadelphia W 16–02,000
[9]
October 23
Union University Field, Princeton, NJ
W 22–0[10]
October 26
at Orange Athletic Club
Orange Oval , Orange, NJ T 0–03,000
[11]
November 2
Harvard (rivalry )University Field, Princeton, NJ
W 12–46,000
[12]
November 9
vs. Cornell
Manhattan Field, New York, NY
W 6–0[13]
November 23
vs. Yale (rivalry )
Manhattan Field, New York, NY
L 10–2035,000
[14]
References [ ]
↑ "1895 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results" . SR/College Football . Sports Reference LLC. https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/princeton/1895-schedule.html . Retrieved February 27, 2017 .↑ "Award Winners" . NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4. http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2012/Awards.pdf .↑ "In a Slugging Game at Elizabeth: Princeton Tigers Find the Athletic Club Easy to Defeat" . Chicago Tribune : p. 4. October 3, 1895. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16517458/in_a_slugging_game_at_elizabeth/ .↑ "Princeton Played Poorly" . The Time (Philadelphia) : p. 9. October 6, 1895. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16517570/princeton_played_poorly/ .↑ "Princeton's Tigers Roast the University of Virginia by 36 to 0 on Catonsville's Gridiron" . The Sun (Baltimore) : p. 6. October 10, 1895. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16517840/princetons_tigers_roast_the_university/ .↑ "Princeton, 14; Lafayette, 0: Excellent Defensive Work by the Easton Boys Kept the Score Down" . The New York Times : p. 6. October 13, 1895. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16517993/princeton_14_lafayette_0_excellent/ .↑ "Several Princeton Men Are Hurt: Tigers Have a Sharp and Snappy Game with the Lawrenceville "Preps"" . Chicago Tribune : p. 7. October 16, 1895. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16518250/several_princeton_men_are_hurt_tigers/ .↑ "Tigers vs. Seminarians: The Varsity Team Defeats the Princeton Seminarians" . Union Leader : p. 1. October 18, 1895. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16518413/tigers_vs_seminarians_the_varsity/ .↑ "Princeton and Lehigh: The Tigers Put Up a Weak Game and Disappointed Their Many Admirers" . The Times (Philadelphia) : p. 8. October 20, 1895. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16520304/princeton_and_lehigh_the_tigers_put_up/ .↑ "Princeton, 22; Union, 0" . The New York Times : p. 6. October 24, 1895. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16519456/princeton_22_union_0/ .↑ "A Great Game: The Tigers Were Unable to Score Against Orange" . The Sunday News Dealer : p. 1. October 27, 1895. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16519236/a_great_game_the_tigers_were_unable/ .↑ "Princeton, 12; Harvard, 4" . The New York Times : pp. 1–2. November 3, 1895. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16518993/princeton_12_harvard_4/ .↑ "Princeton, 6; Cornell, 0" . The New York Times : p. 3. November 10, 1895. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16518832/princeton_6_cornell_0/ .↑ "Yale Downs the Tiger: Princeton Defeated on Manhattan Field by a Score of 20 to 10" . The Philadelphia Inquirer : p. 1. November 24, 1895. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16518636/yale_downs_the_tiger_princeton/ .
