1899 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1899 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1899 college football season. The team finished with a 12–1 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report and Parke H. Davis. Harvard compiled a 10–0–1 record and was selected as the national champion by three other selectors.[1][2] They outscored their opponents 185 to 21.[2]

1899 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Billingsley, Davis)
Conference	Independent
1899 record	12–1
Head coach	None
Captain	Big Bill Edwards

1899 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					10	–	0	–	1
Buffalo			–					6	–	0	–	0
Lafayette			–					12	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					12	–	1	–	0
Boston College			–					8	–	1	–	1
Carlisle			–					9	–	2	–	0
Wesleyan			–					7	–	2	–	0
Pittsburgh College			–					2	–	0	–	2
Villanova			–					7	–	2	–	1
Yale			–					7	–	2	–	1
Western Univ. of Penn.			–					3	–	1	–	1
Columbia			–					9	–	3	–	0
Fordham			–					3	–	1	–	0
Cornell			–					7	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					8	–	3	–	2
Brown			–					7	–	3	–	1
Geneva			–					2	–	1	–	0
New Hampshire			–					4	–	2	–	0
Tufts			–					7	–	4	–	0
Bucknell			–					6	–	4	–	0
Syracuse			–					4	–	4	–	0
Army			–					4	–	5	–	0
Colgate			–					4	–	5	–	0
Penn State			–					4	–	6	–	1
Frankin & Marshall			–					3	–	5	–	1
Amherst			–					4	–	7	–	1
NYU			–					2	–	6	–	0
Temple			–					1	–	4	–	1
Lehigh			–					2	–	9	–	0
Rutgers			–					2	–	9	–	0

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
September 30		Maryland Athletic Club		W 28–0
October 7		at Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	W 5–0
October 11		Lafayette	Princeton, NJ	W 12–0
October 14	2:45 p.m.	at Columbia	Manhattan Field New York, NY	W 11–0	[3]
October 18		Penn State	Princeton, NJ	W 12–0
October 21		at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	W 23–0
October 28		Lehigh	Princeton, NJ	W 17–0
November 1		at Cornell	Ithaca, NY	L 0–5
November 4		Brown	Princeton, NJ	W 18–6
November 8		North Carolina	Princeton, NJ	W 30–0
November 11		at Carlisle	Carlisle, PA	W 12–0
November 18		Washington & Jefferson	Princeton, NJ	W 6–0
November 25		at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 11–10

[2]

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. "1899 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
3. "Princeton 11, Columbia 0". Democrat and Chronicle. Rochester, New York. October 15, 1899. p. 19. Retrieved May 2, 2020 – via Newspapers.com .