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
1902 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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

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

  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 open access.
  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.
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