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
ConferenceIndependent
1902 record8–1
Head coachGarrett Cochran (1st season)
CaptainRalph Tipton Davis
1902 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
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
NYU      8 3 0
Amherst      7 3 0
Penn State      7 3 0
Penn      9 4 0
Lehigh      7 3 1
Colgate      5 3 1
Columbia      6 4 1
Villanova      4 3 0
Brown      5 4 1
Western U. of Penn.      5 6 1
New Hampshire      2 3 1
Tufts      4 6 1
Fordham      2 4 1
Wesleyan      3 6 1
Rutgers      3 7 0
Navy      2 7 1
Temple      1 4 1
Pittsburgh College      1 6 0
Boston College      0 8 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 27 SwarthmoreW 18–0
October 4 Lehigh
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 23–0
October 11at NavyW 11–0
October 15 Haverford
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 30–0
October 18 Washington & Jefferson
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 23–5
October 22 Dickinson
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 23–0
October 25 Columbia
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 21–0
November 1 Cornell
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 10–0
November 15 Yale
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
L 5–12
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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.
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