1898 Princeton Tigers football team

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]

1898 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Davis)
Conference	Independent
1898 record	11–0–1
Head coach	None
Captain	Art Hillebrand

1898 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					11	–	0	–	0
Drexel			–					7	–	0	–	0
Princeton			–					11	–	0	–	1
Penn			–					12	–	1	–	0
Buffalo			–					8	–	1	–	0
Cornell			–					10	–	2	–	0
Syracuse			–					8	–	2	–	1
Yale			–					9	–	2	–	0
Wesleyan			–					7	–	3	–	0
Western Penn.			–					5	–	2	–	1
Brown			–					6	–	4	–	0
Carlisle			–					6	–	4	–	0
Penn State			–					6	–	4	–	0
Army			–					3	–	2	–	1
Pittsburgh College			–					5	–	4	–	1
Bucknell			–					4	–	4	–	3
Fordham			–					1	–	1	–	2
Frankin & Marshall			–					4	–	4	–	2
New Hampshire			–					4	–	4	–	0
Amherst			–					4	–	5	–	1
Villanova			–					2	–	4	–	1
Lehigh			–					3	–	6	–	1
Boston College			–					2	–	5	–	1
Colgate			–					2	–	5	–	1
Temple			–					2	–	5	–	0
Lafayette			–					3	–	8	–	0
Geneva			–					1	–	4	–	1
NYU			–					1	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					1	–	6	–	1
Tufts			–					1	–	9	–	0

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 24	Lehigh	Princeton, NJ	W 21–0
October 1	Stevens	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	The Plain West Point, NY	T 5–5
November 12	Yale	Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 6–0

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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. "1898 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.