1900 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1900 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1900 college football season. The team finished with an 8–3 record. The Tigers won their first eight games by a combined score of 159 to 10, but then lost the last three games of the season against Cornell, Columbia and Yale.^[1] No Princeton players received first-team honors on the 1900 College Football All-America Team.

1900 Princeton Tigers football
Conference	Independent
Record	8–3
Head coach	None
Captain	Williamson Pell
Home stadium	Osborne Field
Seasons ← 1899 1901 →

1900 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					12	–	0	–	0
Penn			–					12	–	1	–	0
Harvard			–					10	–	1	–	0
Cornell			–					10	–	2	–	0
Geneva			–					5	–	1	–	1
Lafayette			–					9	–	2	–	0
Syracuse			–					7	–	2	–	1
Princeton			–					8	–	3	–	0
Drexel			–					5	–	2	–	0
Fordham			–					3	–	1	–	1
Army			–					7	–	3	–	1
Brown			–					7	–	3	–	1
Columbia			–					7	–	3	–	1
Villanova			–					5	–	2	–	2
Washington & Jefferson			–					6	–	3	–	1
Swarthmore			–					6	–	3	–	2
Holy Cross			–					5	–	3	–	1
Carlisle			–					6	–	4	–	1
Buffalo			–					3	–	2	–	2
Dickinson			–					5	–	4	–	0
Western Univ. of Penn			–					5	–	4	–	0
Bucknell			–					4	–	4	–	1
Pittsburgh College			–					3	–	3	–	1
Rutgers			–					4	–	4	–	0
Vermont			–					4	–	4	–	1
Lehigh			–					5	–	6	–	0
Frankin & Marshall			–					4	–	5	–	0
Temple			–					3	–	4	–	1
Penn State			–					4	–	6	–	1
Amherst			–					4	–	7	–	1
Dartmouth			–					2	–	4	–	2
NYU			–					3	–	6	–	1
Tufts			–					3	–	6	–	1
Wesleyan			–					3	–	6	–	1
New Hampshire			–					1	–	5	–	1
Colgate			–					2	–	8	–	0
CCNY			–					0	–	1	–	0

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 3	3:30 p.m.	Stevens	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ	W 40–0		[2][3]
October 6		Lehigh	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ	W 12–5		[4][5]
October 10		Penn State	Princeton, NJ	W 26–0		[6][7]
October 12		at Baltimore Medical College	Union Park Baltimore, MD	W 11–0	1,500	[8]
October 13		at Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	W 5–0		[9]
October 17		Syracuse	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ	W 43–0		[10]
October 20		at Lafayette	Easton, PA	W 5–0	4,000	[11]
October 27	3:10 p.m.	at Brown	Andrews Field Providence, RI	W 17–5	5,000	[12]
November 3	2:45 p.m.	Cornell	Princeton, NJ	L 0–12		[13]
November 6	2:45 p.m.	at Columbia	Columbia Field New York, NY	L 5–6	10,000	[14][15]
November 17	2:45 p.m.	Yale	University Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 5–29	15,000	[16][17][18]

References

1. "1900 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
2. "Tiger Ends Do Brilliant Work in First Game: Stevens Beaten 42 to 0 and Little and Roper Are the Stars". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 4, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.(other sources report score as 40-0)
3. "Princeton, 40; Stevens, 0". Daily Princetonian. October 4, 1890. p. 1.
4. "Princeton, 12; Lehigh, 5". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 7, 1900. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Tigers Scored on by Lehigh". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 7, 1900. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.(Osborne Field)
6. "Princeton's Strong Game". The New York Times. October 11, 1900. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
7. "Princeton, 26; State College, 0". Daily Princetonian. October 11, 1900. p. 1.
8. "Princeton by 11 to 0: Thus Results a Vicious Battle Against Baltimore Meds". The Sun (Baltimore). October 13, 1900. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Princeton, 5; Annapolis, 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 14, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
10. "Tigers Show Improvement". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 18, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
11. "Tigers Beat Lafayette: Princeton Wins a Hard Fight by a Score of 5 to 0". The Inter Ocean. October 21, 1900. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
12. "Princeton, 17; Brown, 5". New York Tribune. October 28, 1900. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
13. "Cornell Beat Princeton". The New York Times. November 4, 1900. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
14. "Columbia Is Victorious". The New York Times. November 7, 1900. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
15. "Columbia Beat Tigers in Closely Fought Game". The Philadelphia Times. November 7, 1900. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
16. "Yale Scores 29, Princeton 5". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 18, 1900. pp. 1, 15 – via Newspapers.com.
17. "Yale Buries Princeton: Sons of Eli Score 29 to 5 by the Tigers". The New York Times. November 18, 1900. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
18. "Eli Crushes the Tigers in a One-Sided Game". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 18, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.