1922 Princeton Tigers football team

1922 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Boand, CFRA)
Co-national champion (NCF, Davis, Sagarin-ELO)
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–0
Head coach
Offensive schemeShort punt
CaptainMel Dickenson
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
Uniform
Seasons
← 1921
1923 →
1922 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Cornell     8 0 0
Princeton     8 0 0
Army     8 0 2
Syracuse     6 1 2
Franklin & Marshall     8 2 0
Pittsburgh     8 2 0
Holy Cross     7 2 1
Harvard     7 2 0
Lafayette     7 2 0
Springfield     6 2 0
Boston College     6 2 1
Brown     6 2 1
Colgate     6 3 0
Dartmouth     6 3 0
Penn     6 3 0
Vermont     6 3 0
Washington & Jefferson     6 3 1
Yale     6 3 1
Bucknell     7 4 0
Penn State     6 4 1
Carnegie Tech     5 3 1
Villanova     5 3 1
Columbia     5 4 0
Rutgers     5 4 0
Tufts     5 4 0
Rhode Island State     4 4 0
NYU     4 5 0
Fordham     3 5 2
Geneva     4 6 0
Boston University     2 4 3
Lehigh     3 5 1
New Hampshire     3 5 1
Drexel     2 4 0
Temple     1 4 1
Buffalo     1 5 0
CCNY     1 6 0
Duquesne     0 8 0

The 1922 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Princeton University as an independent during the 1922 college football season. In their ninth season under head coach Bill Roper, the Tigers compiled a perfect 8–0 record, shut out five of eight opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 127 to 34.[1] Mel Dickenson was the team captain.

There was no contemporaneous system in 1922 for determining a national champion. However, Princeton was retroactively named as the national champion by the Boand System and College Football Researchers Association, and as a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation, Parke H. Davis, and Jeff Sagarin (using the ELO-Chess methodology).[2] California and Cornell were recognized by some selectors as the national champion or co-champion.

Princeton tackle Herb Treat was a consensus first-team player on the 1922 All-America team.[3] Other notable players on the 1922 team included end Howdy Gray, halfback Jack Cleaves, tackle Harland "Pink" Baker, and guard Mel Dickinson.

  1. ^ "1922 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. 108. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
  3. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.