1896 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1896 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1896 college football season. The team finished with a 10–0–1 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, and Houlgate System, and as a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis.[1][2] They outscored their opponents 299 to 12.[2]

1896 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate) Co-national champion (NCF, Davis)
Conference	Independent
1896 record	10–0–1
Head coach	Franklin Morse (1st season)
Captain	Garrett Cochran

1896 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Fordham			–					1	–	0	–	0
Lafayette			–					11	–	0	–	1
Princeton			–					10	–	0	–	1
Penn			–					14	–	1	–	0
Yale			–					13	–	1	–	0
Pittsburgh College			–					11	–	2	–	0
Buffalo			–					8	–	1	–	2
Villanova			–					10	–	4	–	0
Bucknell			–					5	–	2	–	1
Harvard			–					7	–	4	–	0
Boston College			–					5	–	3	–	0
Storrs			–					5	–	3	–	0
Cornell			–					5	–	3	–	1
Syracuse			–					5	–	3	–	2
Temple			–					3	–	2	–	0
Army			–					3	–	2	–	1
Carlisle			–					5	–	5	–	0
Rutgers			–					6	–	7	–	0
Brown			–					4	–	5	–	1
Wesleyan			–					4	–	5	–	1
Frankin & Marshall			–					3	–	4	–	2
Geneva			–					3	–	4	–	0
Penn State			–					3	–	4	–	0
Colgate			–					3	–	4	–	1
Amherst			–					3	–	6	–	1
Holy Cross			–					1	–	3	–	2
Western Univ. Penn.			–					3	–	6	–	0
Lehigh			–					2	–	5	–	0
Tufts			–					2	–	6	–	1
New Hampshire			–					1	–	4	–	0
Massachusetts			–					0	–	4	–	0
Rhode Island			–					0	–	4	–	0

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
October 3	Rutgers	Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 44–0
October 7	at Lafayette	March Field Easton, PA	T 0–0
October 10	Lehigh	Princeton, NJ	W 16–0
October 14	Carlisle	Princeton, NJ	W 22–6
October 17	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	W 11–0
October 21	Virginia	Princeton, NJ	W 48–0
October 24	Penn State	Princeton, NJ	W 39–0
October 28	Lawrenceville School	?	W 46–0
October 31	Cornell	Princeton, NJ	W 37–0
November 7	at Harvard	Cambridge, MA (rivalry)	W 12–0
November 21	vs. Yale	New York, NY (rivalry)	W 24–6

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References

1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
2. "1896 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.