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1912 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1–1
Head coach
CaptainTal Pendleton
Home stadiumUniversity Field
Seasons
← 1911
1913 →
1912 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard   –   9 – 0 – 0
Penn State   –   8 – 0 – 0
Carlisle   –   12 – 1 – 1
Maine   –   7 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   7 – 1 – 1
Swarthmore   –   7 – 1 – 1
Yale   –   7 – 1 – 1
Lehigh   –   9 – 2 – 0
Dartmouth   –   7 – 2 – 0
Wesleyan   –   7 – 2 – 0
Colgate   –   5 – 2 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   8 – 3 – 1
Rhode Island State   –   6 – 3 – 0
Bucknell   –   6 – 3 – 1
Temple   –   3 – 2 – 0
Penn   –   7 – 4 – 0
Army   –   5 – 3 – 0
Brown   –   6 – 4 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   6 – 4 – 0
Holy Cross   –   4 – 3 – 1
Rutgers   –   5 – 4 – 0
Tufts   –   5 – 4 – 0
Fordham   –   4 – 4 – 0
Villanova   –   3 – 3 – 0
Morris Harvey   –   2 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   4 – 5 – 1
Syracuse   –   4 – 5 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   3 – 4 – 1
Geneva   –   3 – 4 – 0
Vermont   –   3 – 5 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   3 – 6 – 0
Boston College   –   2 – 4 – 1
Cornell   –   3 – 7 – 0
NYU   –   2 – 6 – 0

The 1912 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1912 college football season. The team finished with a 7–1–1 record under first-year head coach Walter G. Andrews, outscoring opponents by a total of 322 to 35 with the sole loss being to Harvard by 16–6 score.[1] Princeton W. John Logan was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1912 College Football All-America Team,[2] and five other players (halfback Hobey Baker, fullback Wallace "Butch" De Witt, guard Rip Shenk, and tackles Phillips and Penfield) were selected as first-team honorees by at least one selector.

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28 Stevens
W 65–0
October 2 Rutgers
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 41–6[3]
October 5 Lehigh
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 35–0
October 12 VPI
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 31–0
October 19 Syracuse
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 62–0
October 26 Dartmouth
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 22–7
November 2at Harvard
L 6–1630,000[4]
November 9 NYU
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 54–0[5]
November 16 Yale
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
T 6–6

References

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  1. ^ "1912 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 game for Princeton, Rutgers losing by 41 to 6". Chicago Tribune. October 3, 1912. Retrieved December 2, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Melville E. Webb Jr. (November 3, 1912). "Double Knot in Tiger's Tail: Brickley Hero of Harvard's 16-to-6 Triumph". The Boston Globe. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "N.Y.U. a morsel for Tiger eleven". The Daily Home News. November 11, 1912. Retrieved February 5, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
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