1906 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Helms, NCF)
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–0–1
Head coach
Offensive schemeShort punt
CaptainHerb Dillon
1906 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Princeton   –  9 –0 –1
Yale   –  9 –0 –1
Haverford   –  7 –0 –2
Harvard   –  10 –1 –0
Cornell   –  8 –1 –2
Lafayette   –  8 –1 –1
Penn State   –  8 –1 –1
Washington & Jefferson   –  9 –2 –0
Swarthmore   –  7 –2 –0
Drexel   –  6 –2 –0
Tufts   –  6 –2 –0
Penn   –  7 –2 –3
Carlisle   –  9 –3 –0
Brown   –  6 –3 –0
Rutgers   –  5 –2 –2
Dartmouth   –  6 –3 –1
Syracuse   –  6 –3 –0
Colgate   –  4 –2 –2
Vermont   –  5 –4 –0
Fordham   –  5 –3 –0
Western U. of Penn.   –  6 –4 –0
Holy Cross   –  4 –3 –1
Amherst   –  3 –3 –1
Lehigh   –  5 –5 –1
Bucknell   –  3 –4 –1
Dickinson   –  3 –4 –2
Carnegie Tech   –  2 –3 –2
Army   –  3 –5 –1
Frankin & Marshall   –  3 –5 –1
Wesleyan   –  2 –4 –1
New Hampshire   –  2 –5 –1
Villanova   –  3 –7 –0
Springfield Training School   –  1 –5 –3
NYU   –  0 –4 –0

The 1906 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1906 college football season. In their first season under head coach Bill Roper, the team compiled a 9–0–1 record, shut out eight of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 205 to 9.[1] Herb Dillon was the team captain.

There was no contemporaneous system in 1906 for determining a national champion. However, Princeton was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and National Championship Foundation.[2]

Three Princeton players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1906 All-America team: quarterback Edward Dillon; end Caspar Wister; and tackle James Cooney.[3] Other key players included fullback Jim McCormick, who was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.[4]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29Villanova
W 24–0[5]
October 3Stevens
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 22–0[6]
October 6Washington & Jefferson
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 6–0[7]
October 10Lehigh
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 52–0[8]
October 13at Navy
W 5–0[9]
October 20Bucknell
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 32–42,000[10]
October 27vs. Cornell
W 14–520,000[11]
November 3Dartmouth
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ
W 42–08,000[12]
November 10at Army
W 8–0[13]
November 172:08 p.m.Yale
  • University Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
T 0–030,000[14][15][16]

References

  1. ↑ "1906 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Jim McCormick". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  5. ↑ "Tigers Score at Will: Princeton Finds Forward Pass Useful in Beating Villanova". New York Tribune. September 30, 1906. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "Tigers' Long Gains: They Bite Off Lot of Ground With End Runs". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 4, 1906. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Tigers Win From W. and J. 6-0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 7, 1906. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Princeton, 52; Lehigh, 0". Chicago Tribune. October 11, 1906. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Tigers Win by a Narrow Margin". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 14, 1906. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Tigers Eat Up Bucknell, 32 to 4". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 21, 1906. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ "Princeton Defeats Cornell in Fierce Battle by Score 14-5". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 28, 1906. p. 29 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ "Dartmouth Proves Easy: Hanover Team Overrated, Princeton Runs Up a Big Score". The New York Times. November 4, 1906. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ↑ "Tigers Beat Cadets by Two Field Goals: Princeton Unable to Make Gains Against the Army Defense". The New York Times. November 11, 1906. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ "Princeton, 0; Yale, 0; End Of The Game". The Star-Independent. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. November 17, 1906. p. 1. Retrieved April 3, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  15. ↑ "Big Football Battle Draw: Yale and Princeton Teams Fight in Vain to Score in Two Long Halves". New York Tribune. November 18, 1906. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ↑ "Neither Side Could Score: The Princeton-Yale Football Game a Wonder". Chattanooga Daily Times. November 18, 1906. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
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