1911 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1911 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1911 college football season. The team finished with an 8–0–2 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and Parke H. Davis, and as a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation.[1][2] They outscored their opponents 179 to 15.[2]

1911 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Helms, Houlgate, Davis Co-national champion (NCF)
Conference	Independent
1911 record	8–0–2
Head coach	Bill Roper (5th season)
Offensive scheme	Short punt
Captain	Ed Hart
Home stadium	Osborne Field

1911 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Penn State			–					8	–	0	–	1
Carlisle			–					11	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					8	–	0	–	2
Trinity (CT)			–					6	–	0	–	2
Temple			–					6	–	1	–	0
Army			–					6	–	1	–	1
Dartmouth			–					8	–	2	–	0
Lafayette			–					8	–	2	–	0
Yale			–					7	–	2	–	1
Harvard			–					6	–	2	–	1
Cornell			–					7	–	3	–	0
Rhode Island State			–					5	–	2	–	1
Brown			–					7	–	3	–	1
Penn			–					7	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					4	–	3	–	1
Washington & Jefferson			–					6	–	4	–	0
Syracuse			–					5	–	3	–	2
Lehigh			–					5	–	5	–	1
Rutgers			–					4	–	4	–	1
St. Bonaventure			–					2	–	2	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					4	–	5	–	0
Tufts			–					3	–	4	–	0
NYU			–					1	–	3	–	3
Colgate			–					3	–	6	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					3	–	6	–	0
Villanova			–					0	–	5	–	1
Geneva			–					0	–	6	–	1
Boston College			–					0	–	7	–	0

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 30	Stevens	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ	W 37–0
October 4	Rutgers	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 37–0
October 7	Villanova	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ	W 31–0
October 11	Lehigh	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ	T 6–6
October 14	Colgate	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ	W 31–0
October 21	Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	T 0–0
October 28	Holy Cross	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ	W 20–0
November 4	Harvard	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 8–6
November 11	Dartmouth	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ	W 3–0
November 18	Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 6–3

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References

1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
2. "1911 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.