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1900 Princeton Tigers football
Conference Independent
1900 record 8–3
Head coach No coach
Captain Williamson Pell
Seasons
« 1899 1901 »

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[]

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
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, NJW 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, PAW 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, NJL 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[]

  1. "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.
  2. "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)
  3. "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-------#.
  4. "Princeton, 12; Lehigh, 5". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle: p. 8. October 7, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16546416/princeton_12_lehigh_5/.
  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)
  6. "Princeton's Strong Game". The New York Times: p. 9. October 11, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16546523/princetons_strong_game/.
  7. "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-------#.
  8. "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/.
  9. "Princeton, 5; Annapolis, 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle: p. 10. October 14, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16546721/princeton_5_annapolis_0/.
  10. "Tigers Show Improvement". The Philadelphia Inquirer: p. 10. October 18, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16546872/tigers_show_improvement/.
  11. "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/.
  12. "Princeton, 17; Brown, 5". New York Tribune: p. 9. October 28, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16547829/princeton_17_brown_5/.
  13. "Cornell Beat Princeton". The New York Times: p. 8. November 4, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16547228/cornell_beat_princeton/.
  14. "Columbia Is Victorious". The New York Times: p. 11. November 7, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16547695/columbia_is_victorious/.
  15. "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/.
  16. "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/.
  17. "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)
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