1898 Princeton Tigers football team
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| 1898 Princeton Tigers football | |
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National champion (Davis)
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| Conference | Independent |
| 1898 record | 11–0–1 |
| Head coach | No coach |
| Captain | Art Hillebrand |
The 1898 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1898 college football season. The team finished with an 11–0–1 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by one selector, Parke H. Davis, a Princeton alumnus. Harvard finished with an 11–0 record and was named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation.[1][2] They outscored their opponents 266 to 5.[2]
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | ||||||
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| September 24 | Lehigh | Princeton, NJ | W 21–0 | ||||||
| October 1 | Stevens Tech | Princeton, NJ | W 42–0 | ||||||
| October 8 | Franklin & Marshall | Princeton, NJ | W 58–0 | ||||||
| October 12 | Lafayette | Princeton, NJ | W 34–0 | ||||||
| October 14 | Maryland Athletic Club | ? | W 24–0 | ||||||
| October 15 | at Navy | Worden Field • Annapolis, MD | W 30–0 | ||||||
| October 22 | Cornell | Princeton, NJ | W 6–0 | ||||||
| October 26 | Penn State | Princeton, NJ | W 5–0 | ||||||
| October 29 | Brown | Princeton, NJ | W 23–0 | ||||||
| November 2 | Virginia | Princeton, NJ | W 12–0 | ||||||
| November 5 | at Army | West Point, NY | T 5–5 | ||||||
| November 12 | Yale | Princeton, NJ | W 6–0 | ||||||
| *Non-conference game. | |||||||||
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 1898 Princeton University football scores and results. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 18, 2013.
