1900 Princeton Tigers football team

American college football season

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

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. No Princeton players received first-team honors on the 1900 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule

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

References

"1900 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
"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)
"Princeton, 40; Stevens, 0". Daily Princetonian. October 4, 1890. p. 1.
"Princeton, 12; Lehigh, 5". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 7, 1900. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
"Tigers Scored on by Lehigh". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 7, 1900. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.(Osborne Field)
"Princeton's Strong Game". The New York Times. October 11, 1900. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
"Princeton, 26; State College, 0". Daily Princetonian. October 11, 1900. p. 1.
"Princeton by 11 to 0: Thus Results a Vicious Battle Against Baltimore Meds". The Sun (Baltimore). October 13, 1900. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
"Princeton, 5; Annapolis, 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 14, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
"Tigers Show Improvement". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 18, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
"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.
"Princeton, 17; Brown, 5". New York Tribune. October 28, 1900. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
"Cornell Beat Princeton". The New York Times. November 4, 1900. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
"Columbia Is Victorious". The New York Times. November 7, 1900. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
"Columbia Beat Tigers in Closely Fought Game". The Philadelphia Times. November 7, 1900. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
"Yale Scores 29, Princeton 5". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 18, 1900. pp. 1, 15 – via Newspapers.com.
"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.
"Eli Crushes the Tigers in a One-Sided Game". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 18, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.

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