2016 Princeton Tigers football team

The 2016 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by seventh-year head coach Bob Surace and played their home games at Princeton Stadium. Princeton is a member of the Ivy League. They finished the season 8–2 overall and 6–1 in Ivy League play to tie with Penn for the Ivy League title, their first since 2013.

2016 Princeton Tigers football
Ivy League co-champion
Conference	Ivy League
2016 record	8–2 (6–1 Ivy)
Head coach	Bob Surace (7th season)
Offensive coordinator	James Perry (7th season)
Co-defensive coordinator	Steve Verbit
Co-defensive coordinator	Jim Salgado
Home stadium	Princeton Stadium (Capacity: 27,773)

2016 Ivy League football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
Princeton +		6	–	1					8	–	2
Penn +		6	–	1					7	–	3
Harvard		5	–	2					7	–	3
Brown		3	–	4					4	–	6
Yale		3	–	4					3	–	7
Cornell		2	–	5					4	–	6
Columbia		2	–	5					3	–	7
Dartmouth		1	–	6					4	–	6
+ – Conference co-champions

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 17	5:00 p.m.	Lafayette*	Princeton Stadium Princeton, NJ	ESPN3	W 35–31	13,420
September 24	12:30 p.m.	at Lehigh*	Goodman Stadium Bethlehem, PA	CI	L 28–42	5,493
October 1	Noon	at Columbia	Wien Stadium New York, NY	FCS	W 48–13	3,638
October 8	1:00 p.m.	at Georgetown*	Cooper Field Washington, DC	CI	W 31–17	2,263
October 15	3:00 p.m.	Brown	Princeton Stadium Princeton, NJ (Rivalry)	ILDN	W 31–7	5,881
October 22	1:00 p.m.	Harvard	Princeton Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	ILDN	L 20–23 ^OT	9,963
October 29	12:30 p.m.	at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	OWSPN	W 56–7	4,879
November 5	Noon	Penn	Princeton Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	ASN	W 28–0	7,367
November 12	12:30 p.m.	at Yale	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	ILDN	W 31–3	15,321
November 19	1:30 p.m.	Dartmouth	Princeton Stadium Princeton, NJ	OWSPN	W 38–21	8,320
*Non-conference game All times are in Eastern time

Game summaries

Lafayette

	1	2	3	4	Total
Leopards	14	7	3	7	31
Tigers	7	14	14	0	35

at Lehigh

	1	2	3	4	Total
Tigers	7	7	0	14	28
Mountain Hawks	7	14	14	7	42

at Columbia

	1	2	3	4	Total
Tigers	6	28	14	0	48
Lions	6	0	0	7	13

at Georgetown

	1	2	3	4	Total
Tigers	14	7	10	0	31
Hoyas	7	7	3	0	17

Brown

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bears	0	0	0	7	7
Tigers	14	14	3	0	31

Harvard

	1	2	3	4	OT	Total
Crimson	7	7	0	3	6	23
Tigers	0	0	10	7	3	20

at Cornell

	1	2	3	4	Total
Tigers	14	21	14	7	56
Big Red	0	0	7	0	7

Penn

	1	2	3	4	Total
Quakers	0	0	0	0	0
Tigers	6	7	8	7	28

at Yale

	1	2	3	4	Total
Tigers	7	10	0	14	31
Bulldogs	3	0	0	0	3

Dartmouth

	1	2	3	4	Total
Big Green	7	7	0	7	21
Tigers	7	3	7	21	38

References