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
Conference	Independent
Record	8–1
Head coach	Garrett Cochran (1st season)
Captain	Ralph Tipton Davis
Home stadium	University Field
Seasons ← 1901 1903 →

1902 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Ursinus			–					9	–	0	–	0
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
Vermont			–					5	–	3	–	2
Colgate			–					5	–	3	–	1
NYU			–					5	–	3	–	0
Bucknell			–					6	–	4	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					6	–	4	–	0
Columbia			–					6	–	4	–	1
Springfield Training School			–					3	–	2	–	1
Villanova			–					4	–	3	–	0
Brown			–					5	–	4	–	1
Swarthmore			–					6	–	6	–	0
Western U. of Penn.			–					5	–	6	–	1
New Hampshire			–					2	–	3	–	1
Buffalo			–					3	–	5	–	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

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 27	Swarthmore	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 18–0
October 4	Lehigh	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 23–0
October 11	at Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	W 11–0
October 15	Haverford	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 30–0
October 18	Washington & Jefferson	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 23–5		[3]
October 22	Dickinson	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 23–0
October 25	Columbia	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 21–0	6,000	[4]
November 1	Cornell	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 10–0
November 15	Yale	University Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 5–12	20,000	[5]

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.
3. "Good Start By W. & J." The Pittsburgh Post. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 19, 1902. p. 15. Retrieved September 28, 2021 – via Newspapers.com .
4. "Princeton, 21; Columbia, 0". The New York Times. October 26, 1902. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Yale Football Team Defeats Princeton: New Haven Eleven Wins After a Fiercely Fought Game". The New York Times. November 16, 1902. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.