1908 Princeton Tigers football team

1908 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–2–3
Head coach
Offensive schemeShort punt
CaptainEdward Dillon
Home stadiumUniversity Field
1908 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   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
Franklin & 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
New Hampshire   –   1 – 7 – 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.