1907 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1907 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1907 college football season. The team finished with a 7–2 record under second-year head coach Bill Roper and outscored its opponents by a total of 282 to 23.[1] Three Princeton players (fullback Jim McCormick, halfback Edwin Harlan, and end Caspar Wister) were selected as consensus first-team honorees on the 1907 College Football All-America Team.[2] Two other Princeton players (quarterback Edward Dillon and a center with the surname Phillips) also received first-team honors from at least one selector.

1907 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–2
Head coach
Offensive schemeShort punt
CaptainJim McCormick
Home stadiumUniversity Field
1907 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale    9 0 1
Dartmouth    8 0 1
Penn    11 1 0
Carlisle    10 1 0
Temple    4 0 2
Fordham    6 1 1
Cornell    8 2 0
Western U. of Penn.    8 2 0
Princeton    7 2 0
Washington & Jefferson    7 2 0
Lafayette    7 2 1
Lehigh    7 2 1
Swarthmore    6 2 0
Army    6 2 1
NYU    5 2 0
Vermont    4 1 2
Harvard    7 3 0
Brown    7 3 0
Penn State    6 4 0
Syracuse    5 3 1
Drexel    3 2 2
Colgate    4 4 1
Geneva    4 5 2
Amherst    3 4 1
Tufts    3 4 1
Frankin & Marshall    4 6 0
Rutgers    3 5 1
Springfield Training School    2 4 2
Bucknell    4 7 0
New Hampshire    1 5 2
Villanova    1 5 1
Holy Cross    1 7 2
Wesleyan    1 7 1
Carnegie Tech    1 8 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28 StevensW 47–0
October 5 Wesleyan
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 53–0
October 9 Bucknell
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 52–0
October 16 Villanova
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 45–5[3]
October 19 Washington & Jefferson
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 40–0
October 26at Cornell
L 5–6
November 2 Carlisle
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 16–0
November 9 Amherst
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 14–0
November 16at YaleL 10–1240,000[4]

References

  1. "1907 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. "Villa Nova Scores On Old Nassau". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 17, 1907. p. 10. Retrieved November 7, 2021 via Newspapers.com open access.
  4. "Yale's Greatest Football Season Closes with a Victory Over Harvard at Cambridge Yesterday: Yale Vanquishes Harvard, 12 to 0". The New York Times. November 24, 1907. pp. 29, 30 via Newspapers.com.
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