1917 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1917 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1917 college football season. The team finished with a 2–0 record under first-year head coach Keene Fitzpatrick, outscoring opponents by a total of 50 to 0 in games against Fort Dix and Wissahickon Barracks. No Princeton players were selected as first-team honorees on the 1917 College Football All-America Team.

1917 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–0
Head coach
CaptainJack Winn
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
Seasons
← 1916
1918 →
1917 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Pittsburgh   -   10 - 0 - 0
Williams   -   7 - 0 - 1
Yale   -   3 - 0 - 0
Princeton   -   2 - 0 - 0
Syracuse   -   8 - 1 - 1
Army   -   7 - 1 - 0
Rutgers   -   7 - 1 - 1
Penn   -   9 - 2 - 0
Brown   -   8 - 2 - 0
Fordham   -   7 - 2 - 0
Lehigh   -   7 - 2 - 0
Boston College   -   6 - 2 - 0
Swarthmore   -   6 - 2 - 0
Washington & Jefferson   -   7 - 3 - 0
Colgate   -   4 - 2 - 0
Harvard   -   3 - 1 - 3
New Hampshire   -   3 - 2 - 2
Dartmouth   -   5 - 3 - 0
Geneva   -   5 - 3 - 1
Penn State   -   5 - 4 - 0
Buffalo   -   4 - 4 - 0
NYU   -   2 - 2 - 3
Tufts   -   3 - 3 - 0
Carnegie Tech   -   2 - 3 - 1
Bucknell   -   3 - 5 - 1
Lafayette   -   3 - 5 - 0
Holy Cross   -   3 - 4 - 0
Rhode Island State   -   2 - 4 - 2
Carlisle   -   3 - 6 - 0
Columbia   -   2 - 4 - 0
Delaware   -   2 - 5 - 0
Cornell   -   3 - 6 - 0
Franklin & Marshall   -   2 - 6 - 0
Villanova   -   0 - 3 - 2
Temple   -   0 - 6 - 1
Wissahickon Barracks

Zeitplan

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DateOpponentWebsiteResultSource
October 27 307th Field Artillery of Camp DixW 7–0[1]
November 17 Naval Reserve,Wissahickon Barracks at Cape May, NJ Princeton, NJW 41–0[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Informal Varsity Wins From Soldier Eleven: Touchdown Made in First Few Minutes of Play Brings Victory, 7 to 0". Daily Princetonian. October 29, 1917. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Princeton Trounces Wissahickon Men". New York Tribune. November 18, 1917. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.