The 1900 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1900 college football season . The team finished with an 8–3 record. The Tigers won their first eight games by a combined score of 159 to 10, but then lost the last three games of the season against Cornell, Columbia and Yale .[1] No Princeton players received first-team honors on the 1900 College Football All-America Team .
Schedule [ ]
Date Time Opponent Site Result Attendance Source October 3 3:30 p.m. [[{{{school}}}|Stevens]] W 40–0 [2] [3]
October 6 Lehigh Osborne Field Princeton, NJ W 12–5 [4] [5]
October 10 Penn State Princeton, NJ W 26–0 [6] [7]
October 12 at Baltimore Medical College W 11–01,500 [8]
October 13 at Navy W 5–0 [9]
October 17 Syracuse Osborne Field Princeton, NJ W 43–0 [10]
October 20 at Lafayette Easton, PA W 5–04,000 [11]
October 27 3:10 p.m.at Brown Andrews Field Providence, RI W 17–55,000 [12]
November 3 2:45 p.m. Cornell Princeton, NJ L 0–12 [13]
November 6 2:45 p.m.at Columbia L 5–610,000 [14] [15]
November 17 2:45 p.m. Yale University Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry ) L 5–2915,000 [16] [17]
References [ ]
↑ "1900 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results" . SR/College Football . Sports Reference LLC. https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/princeton/1900-schedule.html . Retrieved February 27, 2017 .
↑ "Tiger Ends Do Brilliant Work in First Game: Stevens Beaten 42 to 0 and Little and Roper Are the Stars" . The Philadelphia Inquirer : p. 10. October 4, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16546307/tiger_ends_do_brilliant_work_in_first/ . (other sources report score as 40-0)
↑ "Princeton, 40; Stevens, 0" . Daily Princetonian : p. 1. October 4, 1890. http://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/cgi-bin/princetonperiodicals?a=d&d=Princetonian19001004-01.2.6&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------# .
↑ "Princeton, 12; Lehigh, 5" . The Brooklyn Daily Eagle : p. 8. October 7, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16546416/princeton_12_lehigh_5/ .
↑ "Tigers Scored on by Lehigh" . The Philadelphia Inquirer : p. 14. October 7, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16547089/tigers_scored_on_by_lehigh/ . (Osborne Field)
↑ "Princeton's Strong Game" . The New York Times : p. 9. October 11, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16546523/princetons_strong_game/ .
↑ "Princeton, 26; State College, 0" . Daily Princetonian : p. 1. October 11, 1900. http://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/cgi-bin/princetonperiodicals?a=d&d=Princetonian19001011-01&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------# .
↑ "Princeton by 11 to 0: Thus Results a Vicious Battle Against Baltimore Meds" . The Sun (Baltimore) : p. 12. October 13, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16546633/princeton_by_11_to_0_thus_results_a/ .
↑ "Princeton, 5; Annapolis, 0" . The Brooklyn Daily Eagle : p. 10. October 14, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16546721/princeton_5_annapolis_0/ .
↑ "Tigers Show Improvement" . The Philadelphia Inquirer : p. 10. October 18, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16546872/tigers_show_improvement/ .
↑ "Tigers Beat Lafayette: Princeton Wins a Hard Fight by a Score of 5 to 0" . The Inter Ocean : p. 14. October 21, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16533232/tigers_beat_lafayette_princeton_wins_a/ .
↑ "Princeton, 17; Brown, 5" . New York Tribune : p. 9. October 28, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16547829/princeton_17_brown_5/ .
↑ "Cornell Beat Princeton" . The New York Times : p. 8. November 4, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16547228/cornell_beat_princeton/ .
↑ "Columbia Is Victorious" . The New York Times : p. 11. November 7, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16547695/columbia_is_victorious/ .
↑ "Columbia Beat Tigers in Closely Fought Game" . The Philadelphia Times : p. 5. November 7, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16549570/columbia_beat_tigers_in_closely_fought/ .
↑ "Yale Buries Princeton: Sons of Eli Score 29 to 5 by the Tigers" . The New York Times : p. 8. November 18, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16533449/yale_buries_princeton_sons_of_eli/ .
↑ "Eli Crushes the Tigers in a One-Sided Game" . The Brooklyn Daily Eagle : p. 10. November 18, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16549451/eli_crushes_the_tigers_in_a_one_sided/ . (attendance estimate of 15,000; kickoff at 2:45)