1908 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–2–3
Head coach
Offensive schemeShort punt
CaptainEdward Dillon
Home stadiumUniversity Field
1908 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Penn   –  11 –0 –1
Harvard   –  9 –0 –1
Cornell   –  7 –1 –1
Fordham   –  5 –1 –0
Yale   –  7 –1 –1
Dartmouth   –  6 –1 –1
Carlisle   –  10 –2 –1
Washington & Jefferson   –  10 –2 –1
Army   –  6 –1 –2
Pittsburgh   –  8 –3 –0
Lafayette   –  6 –2 –2
Princeton   –  5 –2 –3
Syracuse   –  6 –3 –1
Brown   –  5 –3 –1
Temple   –  3 –2 –1
Colgate   –  4 –3 –0
Lehigh   –  4 –3 –0
Dickinson   –  5 –4 –0
Amherst   –  3 –3 –2
Holy Cross   –  4 –4 –0
Penn State   –  5 –5 –0
Vermont   –  3 –3 –3
Wesleyan   –  3 –4 –2
Springfield Training School   –  3 –4 –1
NYU   –  2 –3 –2
Frankin & Marshall   –  4 –6 –1
Bucknell   –  3 –5 –2
Rutgers   –  3 –5 –1
Boston College   –  2 –4 –2
Carnegie Tech   –  3 –7 –0
Geneva   –  1 –6 –2
Tufts   –  1 –6 –1
Villanova   –  1 –6 –0
Drexel   –  0 –7 –0

The 1908 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1908 college football season. The team finished with a 5–2–3 record under third-year head coach Bill Roper.[1] Princeton halfback Frederick Tibbott was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1908 College Football All-America Team,[2] and tackle Rudolph Siegling also received first-team honors from multiple selectors.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 3 Springfield Training SchoolW 18–0[3]
October 7 Stevens
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 21–0[4]
October 10 Lafayette
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
T 0–0
October 14 Villanova
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 6–0
October 17 VPI
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 10–4
October 21 Fordham
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 17–0
October 25 Syracuse
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
T 0–0
October 31at ArmyT 0–0
November 7vs. DartmouthL 6–10
November 14 Yale
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
L 6–11

References

  1. ↑ "1908 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. ↑ "Easy For The Tigers". New-York Tribune. New York, New York. October 4, 1908. p. 9. Retrieved March 24, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ↑ "Princeton Defeats Stevens Institute". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 8, 1908. p. 10. Retrieved March 24, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
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