1891 Princeton Tigers football team

1891 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record12–1
Head coach
  • None
CaptainRalph Warren
Home stadiumUniversity Field
Seasons
← 1890
1892 →
1891 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale     13 0 0
Harvard     13 1 0
Princeton     12 1 0
Tufts     7 1 0
Penn     11 2 0
Colgate     4 1 0
Army     4 1 1
Navy     5 2 0
Cornell     7 3 0
Geneva     4 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     4 2 0
Lehigh     7 4 0
Delaware     5 3 1
Rutgers     8 6 0
Brown     4 6 0
Springfield YMCA     5 8 1
Fordham     1 2 1
Syracuse     4 7 0
Massachusetts     2 5 0
Western Univ. Penn.     2 6 0
Lafayette     2 9 1
NYU     1 4 0
Columbia     1 5 0
Wesleyan     1 6 0

The 1891 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1891 college football season. The team finished with a 12–1 record. The Tigers recorded 12 shutouts and outscored opponents by a combined total of 391 to 0 in their first 12 games.[1] The team's sole loss was in the final game of the season by a 19–0 score against Yale.[2]

Three Princeton players, quarterback Philip King, fullback Sheppard Homans, Jr., and guard Jesse Riggs, were consensus first-team honorees on the 1891 College Football All-America Team.[3]

  1. ^ "1891 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "All-Time Princeton Results" (PDF). goprincetontigers.com. Princeton University. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  3. ^ "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.