1902 Princeton Tigers football team

1902 Princeton Tigers football
Conference	Independent
1902 record	8–1
Head coach	Garrett Cochran (1st year)
Captain	Ralph Tipton Davis
Seasons « 1901 1903 »

The 1902 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1902 college football season. The team finished with an 8–1 record under first-year head coach Garrett Cochran. The Tigers won their first eight games, including seven shutouts, and outscored their opponents by a total of 164 to 17. The team's only loss was in the last game of the season by a 12–5 score against Yale. Princeton guard John DeWitt, who later won the silver medal in the hammer throw at the 1904 Summer Olympics, was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1902 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 27	Swarthmore	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 18–0
October 4	Lehigh	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 23–0
October 11	at Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	W 11–0
October 15	[[{{{school}}}|Haverford]]	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 30–0
October 18	Washington & Jefferson	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 23–5
October 22	Dickinson	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 23–0
October 25	Columbia	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 21–0
November 1	Cornell	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 10–0
November 15	Yale	University Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 5–12