1894 Princeton Tigers football team

1894 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Houlgate)
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–2
Head coach
  • None
CaptainThomas Trenchard
Seasons
← 1893
1895 →
1894 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale     16 0 0
Penn     12 0 0
Villanova     1 0 0
Penn State     6 0 1
Harvard     11 2 0
Geneva     5 1 0
Princeton     8 2 0
Temple     4 1 0
Holy Ghost College     7 2 1
Washington & Jefferson     5 2 1
Brown     10 5 0
Bucknell     5 3 0
Colgate     2 1 1
Army     3 2 0
Frankin & Marshall     6 4 0
Cornell     6 4 1
Amherst     7 5 0
Trinity (CT)     4 3 0
Syracuse     6 5 0
Tufts     6 5 0
Massachusetts     3 3 0
Swarthmore     5 5 0
Western Univ. Penn     1 1 0
Lafayette     5 6 0
New Hampshire     2 3 0
Rutgers     4 6 0
Lehigh     5 9 0
Williams     1 3 0
Drexel     1 3 0
MIT     1 4 0
Boston College     1 6 0
Carlisle     1 8 0
Buffalo     0 2 0
NYU     0 3 0
Wesleyan     0 5 0

The 1894 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team representing Princeton University as an independent during the 1894 college football season. The team compiled an 8–2 record, shut out six of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 208 to 44.[1] Thomas Trenchard was the team captain.

There was no contemporaneous system in 1894 for determining a national champion. However, Princeton was retroactively named as the national champion by one selector, the Houlgate System. Most of the other selectors chose Yale (16–0 record) as the national champion for 1894.[2] Yale also defeated Princeton in head-to-head competition.

Two Princeton players, tackle Langdon Lea and guard Art Wheeler, were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1894 All-America team.[3] Lea and Wheeler were both later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.[4][5]

  1. ^ "1894 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  3. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. ^ "Langdon "Biffy" Lea". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 25, 2022.
  5. ^ "Art Wheeler". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 25, 2022.