1905 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–2
Head coach
CaptainJames Cooney
Home stadiumUniversity Field
1905 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale    10 0 0
Penn    12 0 1
Temple    2 0 1
Dartmouth    7 1 2
Swarthmore    7 1 0
Western U. of Penn.    10 2 0
Princeton    8 2 0
Harvard    8 2 1
Washington & Jefferson    10 3 0
Lafayette    7 2 1
Wesleyan    7 2 1
Carlisle    10 4 0
Penn State    8 3 0
Syracuse    8 3 0
Fordham    5 2 0
Amherst    3 1 2
Holy Cross    6 3 0
Brown    7 4 0
Tufts    5 3 0
Vermont    6 4 1
Cornell    6 4 0
Colgate    5 4 0
Columbia    4 3 2
Army    4 4 1
Bucknell    5 5 0
NYU    3 3 1
Lehigh    6 7 0
Frankin & Marshall    4 6 0
Geneva    4 6 0
New Hampshire    2 4 2
Springfield Training School    3 5 0
Rutgers    3 6 0
Villanova    3 7 0
Drexel    1 7 0

The 1905 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1905 college football season. The team finished with an 8–2 record under third-year head coach Art Hillebrand and outscored its opponents by a total of 229 to 45.[1] Princeton fullback Jim McCormick was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1905 College Football All-America Team.[2] Tackle James Cooney was also selected as a first-team All-American by The New York Times.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 23VillanovaW 41–0
September 30Washington & Jefferson
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 23–0
October 7Georgetown
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 34–0
October 11Lehigh
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 29–6[4]
October 14Bucknell
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 48–0
October 21Lafayette
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 22–4
October 28at ColumbiaW 12–010,000[5]
November 4Dartmouth
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
L 0–6
November 11Cornell
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 16–6
November 18at YaleL 4–2322,000[6]

[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "1905 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. 1905 Official NCAA Football Guide
  4. "Princeton, 20; Lehigh 6". The Scranton Republican. October 12, 1905 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Princeton Triumphs Over Columbia's Team". The New York Times. October 29, 1905. p. 10 via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Yale Beats Princeton in Spectacular Game: Over 22,000 Cheer the Teams at New Haven". The New York Times. November 19, 1905. p. 9 via Newspapers.com.
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