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
1902 record8–1
Head coach
CaptainRalph Tipton Davis
1902 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
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
Colgate   –    5 –3 –1
NYU   –    5 –3 –0
Columbia   –    6 –4 –1
Bucknell   –    6 –4 –0
Villanova   –    4 –3 –0
Brown   –    5 –4 –1
Western U. of Penn.   –    5 –6 –1
New Hampshire   –    2 –3 –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

DateOpponentSiteResult
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
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

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.
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