1897 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1897 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1897 college football season. The team finished with a 10–1 record. The Tigers won their first ten games by a combined score of 339 to 0, but then lost the last game of the season by a 6–0 score against Yale.^[1] Two Princeton players, halfback Addison Kelly and end Garrett Cochran, were consensus first-team honorees on the 1897 College Football All-America Team.^[2]

1897 Princeton Tigers football
Conference	Independent
Record	10–1
Head coach	None
Captain	Garrett Cochran
Seasons ← 1896 1898 →

1897 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Penn			–					15	–	0	–	0
Princeton			–					10	–	1	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					10	–	1	–	0
Yale			–					9	–	0	–	2
Buffalo			–					9	–	1	–	0
Harvard			–					10	–	1	–	1
Army			–					6	–	1	–	1
Vermont			–					3	–	0	–	2
Lafayette			–					9	–	2	–	1
Drexel			–					6	–	2	–	1
Colgate			–					5	–	2	–	1
Dickinson			–					7	–	3	–	2
Swarthmore			–					7	–	3	–	2
Fordham			–					2	–	1	–	1
Cornell			–					5	–	3	–	1
Syracuse			–					5	–	3	–	1
Brown			–					7	–	4	–	0
Carlisle			–					6	–	4	–	0
Boston College			–					4	–	3	–	0
Holy Cross			–					4	–	3	–	1
Bucknell			–					3	–	3	–	1
NYU			–					3	–	3	–	0
Temple			–					3	–	3	–	0
Trinity (CT)			–					4	–	4	–	1
Wesleyan			–					6	–	6	–	0
Tufts			–					6	–	7	–	0
Geneva			–					3	–	4	–	1
Pittsburgh College			–					3	–	5	–	2
Villanova			–					3	–	5	–	1
Penn State			–					3	–	6	–	0
Amherst			–					2	–	6	–	2
Frankin & Marshall			–					2	–	6	–	2
Lehigh			–					3	–	7	–	0
New Hampshire			–					2	–	5	–	0
Rutgers			–					2	–	6	–	0
Western Univ. Penn.			–					1	–	3	–	0

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 2		Lehigh	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 43–0		^[3]
October 6		Rutgers	University Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 53–0		^[4]
October 9		at Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	W 28–0	3,000	^[5]
October 13		Penn State	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 34–0		^[6]
October 16		Carlisle	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 18–0	8,000	^[7]
October 20		Franklin & Marshall	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 54–0		^[8]
October 23		at Cornell	Percy Field Ithaca, NY	W 10–0	7,000	^[9]
October 27		Elizabeth A.C.	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 12–0		^[10]
October 30	3:10 p.m.	Dartmouth	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 30–0	2,000	^[11]^[12]
November 6		Lafayette	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 57–0	4,500	^[13]
November 20		at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 0–6	18,000	^[14]
All times are in Eastern time

References

1. "1897 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. "The Champion Princeton Team Opens the Season with an Easy Victory Over Lehigh: Tigers Scored 43 to 0". The New York Times. October 3, 1897. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "Tigers Score 53 Points: Yes, But the Rutgers Team Was Not Much to Beat". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 7, 1897. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Naval Cadets Make a Plucky Fight Against Princeton, but Are Beaten 28 to 0". The New York Times. October 10, 1897. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Scares the Tigers: State Almost Scores Twice Against Princeton's Team". Chicago Tribune. October 14, 1897. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
7. "Indians and Tigers Fought Fiercely: Victory for Princeton Came After Much Effort and Injured Men". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 17, 1897. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "Tigers Score Heavily: Roll Up 54 Points, But F. and M. Is Very Weak". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 21, 1897. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Tigers Badly Scared: Princeton Went to Ithaca Expecting to Have an Easy Time". The World (New York). October 24, 1897. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
10. "Tigers Hard Pushed: Elizabeth's Strong Team Made Princeton Work Hard to Beat Them". The World (New York). October 28, 1897. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
11. "Tigers Run Thirty On Dartmouth's Team". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 31, 1897. p. 11. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
12. "Tigers' Strong Game: Show the Best Form Against Dartmouth Thus Far Evinced This Season". The Philadelphia Times. October 31, 1897. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
13. "Tigers Scored Almost at Will: Administer an Overwhelming Defeat to the Lafayette Team". The Philadelphia Times. November 7, 1897. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
14. "Great Victory for Yale: She Plays a Brilliant Game, Defeating Princeton with a Score of 6 to 0". The New York Times. November 21, 1897. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.