1902 Princeton Tigers football team

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.[1] 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.[2]

1902 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–1
Head coach
CaptainRalph Tipton Davis
Home stadiumUniversity Field
Seasons
← 1901
1903 →
1902 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Ursinus     9 0 0
Yale     11 0 1
Geneva     7 0 0
Harvard     11 1 0
Princeton     8 1 0
Army     6 1 1
Frankin & Marshall     7 2 0
Dartmouth     6 2 1
Holy Cross     6 2 1
Syracuse     6 2 1
Carlisle     8 3 0
Cornell     8 3 0
Lafayette     8 3 0
Amherst     7 3 0
Penn State     7 3 0
Penn     9 4 0
Lehigh     7 3 1
Vermont     5 3 2
Colgate     5 3 1
NYU     5 3 0
Bucknell     6 4 0
Washington & Jefferson     6 4 0
Columbia     6 4 1
Springfield Training School     3 2 1
Villanova     4 3 0
Brown     5 4 1
Swarthmore     6 6 0
Western U. of Penn.     5 6 1
New Hampshire     2 3 1
Buffalo     3 5 1
Tufts     4 6 1
Fordham     2 4 1
Wesleyan     3 6 1
Rutgers     3 7 0
Navy     2 7 1
Drexel     1 4 1
Temple     1 4 1
Pittsburgh College     1 6 0
Boston College     0 8 0

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27 SwarthmoreW 18–0
October 4 Lehigh
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 23–0
October 11at NavyW 11–0
October 15 Haverford
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 30–0
October 18 Washington & Jefferson
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 23–5[3]
October 22 Dickinson
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 23–0
October 25 Columbia
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 21–06,000[4]
November 1 Cornell
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 10–0
November 15 Yale
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
L 5–1220,000[5]

References

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  1. ^ "1902 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
  3. ^ "Good Start By W. & J." The Pittsburgh Post. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 19, 1902. p. 15. Retrieved September 28, 2021 – via Newspapers.com  .
  4. ^ "Princeton, 21; Columbia, 0". The New York Times. October 26, 1902. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Yale Football Team Defeats Princeton: New Haven Eleven Wins After a Fiercely Fought Game". The New York Times. November 16, 1902. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.