1916 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1916 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1916 college football season. The team finished with a 6–2 record under second-year head coach John H. Rush.[1] Princeton guard Frank T. Hogg was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1916 College Football All-America Team.[2] Three other Princeton players (end Charles Highley, center Alfred Gennert, and a tackle with the surname McLean) were selected as first-team honorees by at least one selector in 1916.

1916 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
1916 record6–2
Head coach
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
1916 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Army   –    9 –0 –0
Pittsburgh   –    8 –0 –0
Brown   –    8 –1 –0
Colgate   –    8 –1 –0
Yale   –    8 –1 –0
Fordham   –    6 –1 –1
Penn State   –    8 –2 –0
Wash. & Jeff.   –    8 –2 –0
Boston College   –    6 –2 –0
Cornell   –    6 –2 –0
Princeton   –    6 –2 –0
Lehigh   –    6 –2 –1
Dartmouth   –    5 –2 –2
Harvard   –    7 –3 –0
Penn   –    7 –3 –1
Temple   –    3 –1 –2
Tufts   –    5 –3 –0
Carnegie Tech   –    4 –3 –0
Rutgers   –    3 –2 –2
NYU   –    4 –3 –1
Syracuse   –    5 –4 –0
Rhode Island State   –    3 –4 –1
Geneva   –    2 –5 –2
Carlisle   –    1 –3 –1
Lafayette   –    2 –6 –1
Bucknell   –    3 –9 –0
Columbia   –    1 –5 –2
Franklin & Marshall   –    1 –7 –0
Villanova   –    1 –8 –0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 30at Holy CrossW 21–0
October 7 North CarolinaW 29–0
October 14 Tufts
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 3–0
October 21 Lafayette
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 33–0
October 28 Dartmouth
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 7–3
November 4 Bucknell
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 42–0
November 11at Harvard L 0–3
November 18 Yale
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
L 0–10

References

  1. "1916 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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