1910 Princeton Tigers football team

1910 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1
Head coach
Offensive schemeShort punt
CaptainEd Hart
Home stadiumUniversity Field
Seasons
← 1909
1911 →
1910 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Pittsburgh   –   9 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –   9 – 0 – 1
Penn   –   9 – 1 – 1
Princeton   –   7 – 1 – 0
Trinity (CT)   –   7 – 1 – 0
Ursinus   –   6 – 1 – 0
Rhode Island State   –   5 – 1 – 1
Lafayette   –   7 – 2 – 0
Army   –   6 – 2 – 0
Brown   –   7 – 2 – 1
Yale   –   6 – 2 – 2
Dartmouth   –   5 – 2 – 0
Cornell   –   5 – 2 – 1
Penn State   –   5 – 2 – 1
Colgate   –   4 – 2 – 1
Swarthmore   –   5 – 3 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   4 – 3 – 2
Syracuse   –   5 – 4 – 1
Rutgers   –   3 – 2 – 3
Carlisle   –   8 – 6 – 0
Holy Cross   –   3 – 3 – 2
Temple   –   3 – 3 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   3 – 3 – 1
Wesleyan   –   4 – 4 – 1
Geneva   –   2 – 5 – 2
NYU   –   2 – 4 – 1
Dickinson   –   3 – 7 – 0
Lehigh   –   2 – 6 – 1
Bucknell   –   2 – 6 – 0
Vermont   –   1 – 5 – 1
Carnegie Tech   –   1 – 6 – 1
Boston College   –   0 – 4 – 2
Tufts   –   1 – 7 – 1
Villanova   –   0 – 4 – 2

The 1910 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1910 college football season. The team finished with a 7–1 record under fourth-year head coach Bill Roper. The Tigers won their first seven games by a combined score of 98 to 0, but lost the final game of the season to rival Yale by a 5–3 score.[1] Princeton halfback Talbot Pendleton was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1910 College Football All-America Team,[2] and one other player, a guard named Thomas A. Wilson, was selected as a first-team honoree by at least one selector.[3][4]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 24 Stevens
W 18–0
October 1 Villanova
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 36–0
October 8 NYU
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 12–0
October 15at Lafayette Easton, PAW 3–0
October 22 Carlisle
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 6–0
October 29vs. Dartmouth
W 6–0
November 5 Holy Cross
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 17–0[5]
November 12 Yale
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
L 3–5

References

  1. ^ "1910 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. ^ "Paper Elevens of New York Critics: Kilpatrick Heads List of All Selections; Unanimous for Sprackling". Anaconda Standard. December 1, 1910.
  4. ^ "All American Team Includes Munk". The Cornell Daily Sun. November 28, 1910.
  5. ^ "Tigers Beat Holy Cross, 17-0". The Chicago Sunday Tribune. Chicago, Ill. November 6, 1910. sect. III, p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.