1895 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1895 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1895 college football season. The team finished with a 10–1–1 record. The Tigers recorded nine shutouts and outscored opponents by a combined score of 224 to 28. The team's sole loss was in the last game of the season by a 20–10 score against Yale.[1]

1895 Princeton Tigers football
Conference	Independent
1895 record	10–1–1
Head coach	None
Captain	Langdon Lea

1895 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Penn			–					14	–	0	–	0
Yale			–					13	–	0	–	2
Princeton			–					10	–	1	–	1
Harvard			–					8	–	2	–	1
Lafayette			–					6	–	2	–	0
Syracuse			–					6	–	2	–	2
Army			–					5	–	2	–	0
Bucknell			–					5	–	2	–	0
Colgate			–					4	–	2	–	0
Tufts			–					8	–	5	–	0
Wesleyan			–					6	–	3	–	0
Amherst			–					6	–	5	–	0
Brown			–					7	–	6	–	1
Carlisle			–					4	–	4	–	0
Rutgers			–					4	–	4	–	0
Villanova			–					3	–	3	–	0
Penn State			–					2	–	2	–	3
Cornell			–					3	–	4	–	1
New Hampshire			–					2	–	3	–	1
Frankin & Marshall			–					3	–	5	–	1
Boston College			–					2	–	4	–	2
Lehigh			–					3	–	6	–	0
CCNY			–					2	–	5	–	1
Temple			–					1	–	4	–	1
MIT			–					1	–	4	–	0
Trinity (CT)			–					1	–	4	–	0
Massachusetts			–					1	–	5	–	0
Western Univ. Penn.			–					1	–	6	–	0

Two Princeton players, tackle Langdon Lea and guard Dudley Riggs, were consensus first-team honorees on the 1895 College Football All-America Team.[2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 2	at Elizabeth Athletic Club	Elizabeth, NJ	W 40–0		[3]
October 5	Rutgers	Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 22–0		[4]
October 9	vs. Virginia	Catonsville Country Club Baltimore, MD	W 36–0	3,000	[5]
October 12	Lafayette	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 14–0		[6]
October 15	at Lawrenceville School	Lawrenceville Grounds Lawrenceville, NJ	W 38–0		[7]
October 17	Princeton Seminary	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 10–4		[8]
October 19	vs. Lehigh	Philadelphia Ball Park Philadelphia, PA	W 16–0	2,000	[9]
October 23	Union (NY)	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 22–0		[10]
October 26	at Orange Athletic Club	Orange Oval Orange, NJ	T 0–0	3,000	[11]
November 2	Harvard	University Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 12–4	6,000	[12]
November 9	vs. Cornell	Manhattan Field New York, NY	W 6–0		[13]
November 23	vs. Yale	Manhattan Field New York, NY (rivalry)	L 10–20	35,000	[14]

References

1. "1895 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. "In a Slugging Game at Elizabeth: Princeton Tigers Find the Athletic Club Easy to Defeat". Chicago Tribune. October 3, 1895. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "Princeton's Tigers Roast the University of Virginia by 36 to 0 on Catonsville's Gridiron". The Sun (Baltimore). October 10, 1895. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Princeton's Tigers Roast the University of Virginia by 36 to 0 on Catonsville's Gridiron". The Sun (Baltimore). October 10, 1895. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Princeton, 14; Lafayette, 0: Excellent Defensive Work by the Easton Boys Kept the Score Down". The New York Times. October 13, 1895. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
7. "Several Princeton Men Are Hurt: Tigers Have a Sharp and Snappy Game with the Lawrenceville "Preps"". Chicago Tribune. October 16, 1895. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "Tigers vs. Seminarians: The Varsity Team Defeats the Princeton Seminarians". Union Leader. October 18, 1895. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Princeton and Lehigh: The Tigers Put Up a Weak Game and Disappointed Their Many Admirers". The Times (Philadelphia). October 20, 1895. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
10. "Princeton, 22; Union, 0". The New York Times. October 24, 1895. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
11. "A Great Game: The Tigers Were Unable to Score Against Orange". The Sunday News Dealer. October 27, 1895. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
12. "Princeton, 12; Harvard, 4". The New York Times. November 3, 1895. pp. 1–2 – via Newspapers.com.
13. "Princeton, 6; Cornell, 0". The New York Times. November 10, 1895. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
14. "Yale Downs the Tiger: Princeton Defeated on Manhattan Field by a Score of 20 to 10". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 24, 1895. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.