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1908 Princeton Tigers football team

1908 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–2–3
Head coach
Offensive schemeShort punt
CaptainEdward Dillon
Home stadiumUniversity Field
Seasons
← 1907
1909 →
1908 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn     11 0 1
Harvard     9 0 1
Cornell     7 1 1
Fordham     5 1 0
Yale     7 1 1
Dartmouth     6 1 1
Carlisle     10 2 1
Washington & Jefferson     10 2 1
Army     6 1 2
Pittsburgh     8 3 0
Lafayette     6 2 2
Princeton     5 2 3
Syracuse     6 3 1
Brown     5 3 1
Temple     3 2 1
Colgate     4 3 0
Lehigh     4 3 0
Dickinson     5 4 0
Amherst     3 3 2
Holy Cross     4 4 0
Penn State     5 5 0
Vermont     3 3 3
Wesleyan     3 4 2
Springfield Training School     3 4 1
NYU     2 3 2
Frankin & Marshall     4 6 1
Bucknell     3 5 2
Rutgers     3 5 1
Boston College     2 4 2
Carnegie Tech     3 7 0
Geneva     1 6 2
Tufts     1 6 1
Villanova     1 6 0
New Hampshire     1 7 0
Drexel     0 7 0

The 1908 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1908 college football season. The team finished with a 5–2–3 record under third-year head coach Bill Roper.[1] Princeton halfback Frederick Tibbott was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1908 College Football All-America Team,[2] and tackle Rudolph Siegling also received first-team honors from multiple selectors.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 3 Springfield Training SchoolW 18–0[3]
October 7 Stevens
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 21–0[4]
October 10 Lafayette
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
T 0–0
October 14 Villanova
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 6–0
October 17 VPI
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 10–4
October 21 Fordham
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 17–0
October 25 Syracuse
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
T 0–0
October 31at ArmyT 0–0
November 7vs. DartmouthL 6–10
November 14 Yale
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
L 6–11

References

  1. ^ "1908 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. ^ "Easy For The Tigers". New-York Tribune. New York, New York. October 4, 1908. p. 9. Retrieved March 24, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ "Princeton Defeats Stevens Institute". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 8, 1908. p. 10. Retrieved March 24, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.