1887 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1887 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1887 college football season. The team finished with a 7–2 record. The Tigers held their first nine opponents scoreless, winning those games by a combined 420 to 0 score. The team then lost the last two games of the season against Harvard and Yale.^[1]

1887 Princeton Tigers football
Conference	Independent
Record	7–2
Head coach	None
Captain	Woody Wagenhorst
Seasons ← 1886 1888 →

1887 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					9	–	0	–	0
Penn State			–					2	–	0	–	0
Harvard			–					10	–	1	–	0
Lafayette			–					7	–	2	–	0
Princeton			–					7	–	2	–	0
Lehigh			–					4	–	3	–	0
Williams			–					3	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					6	–	7	–	0
Wesleyan			–					4	–	5	–	0
Tufts			–					4	–	6	–	0
Massachusetts			–					2	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					2	–	6	–	0
Bucknell			–					0	–	2	–	0
Cornell			–					0	–	2	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					0	–	2	–	0
Vermont			–					0	–	2	–	0

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 8	Lafayette	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 47–0		^[2]
October 12	at Rutgers	College Field Hoboken, NJ (rivalry)	W 30–0		^[3]
October 15	Lehigh	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 80–0		^[4]
October 19	at Penn	Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 57–0	3,000	^[5]
October 22	Penn	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 48–0		^[6]
October 29	Wesleyan	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 69–0		^[7]
November 5	at Penn	University Athletic Grounds Philadelphia, PA	W 95–0		^[8]
November 12	at Harvard	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA (rivalry)	L 0–12		^[9]
November 19	vs. Yale	Polo Grounds New York, NY (rivalry)	L 0–12		^[10]

References

1. "1887 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
2. "Foot Ball at Princeton: The Lafayette Team Defeated in the Opening Game". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 9, 1887. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "Princeton Defeats Rutgers". The New York Times. October 13, 1887. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "Princeton Easily Outkicks Lehigh". The Times (Philadelphia). October 16, 1887. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "College Foot Ball: Princeton Wins in the Game with the University". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 20, 1887. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Cold Weather Sport: The University Football Team Defeated at Princeton". The Times (Philadelphia). October 23, 1887. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
7. "The Football One Sided: Wesleyan Pluck Futile Against Princeton Play". The New York Times. October 30, 1887. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "Princeton's Foot-Ball Victory: The Great Score of 95 to 0 With Pennsylvania". The Times (Philadelphia). November 6, 1887. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Harvard Winning At Football". New York Daily Tribune. November 13, 1887. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
10. "Yale Triumphs in the Mud". The Sun (New York). November 20, 1887. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.