1894 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1894 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team representing Princeton University as an independent during the 1894 college football season. The team compiled an 8–2 record, shut out six of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 208 to 44.[1] Thomas Trenchard was the team captain.

1894 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Houlgate)
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–2
Head coach
  • None
CaptainThomas Trenchard
Seasons
← 1893
1895 →
1894 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale  1600
Penn  1200
Villanova  100
Penn State  601
Harvard  1120
Geneva  510
Princeton  820
Temple  410
Holy Ghost College  721
Washington & Jefferson  521
Brown  1050
Bucknell  530
Colgate  211
Army  320
Frankin & Marshall  640
Cornell  641
Amherst  750
Trinity (CT)  430
Syracuse  650
Tufts  650
Massachusetts  330
Swarthmore  550
Western Univ. Penn  110
Lafayette  560
New Hampshire  230
Rutgers  460
Lehigh  590
Williams  130
Drexel  130
MIT  140
Boston College  160
Carlisle  180
Buffalo  020
NYU  030
Wesleyan  050

There was no contemporaneous system in 1894 for determining a national champion. However, Princeton was retroactively named as the national champion by one selector, the Houlgate System. Most of the other selectors chose Yale (16–0 record) as the national champion for 1894.[2] Yale also defeated Princeton in head-to-head competition.

Two Princeton players, tackle Langdon Lea and guard Art Wheeler, were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1894 All-America team.[3] Lea and Wheeler were both later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.[4][5]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29LafayettePrinceton, NJW 40–03,000[6]
October 6at LehighSouth Bethlehem, PAW 8–0[7]
October 10RutgersPrinceton, NJ (rivalry)W 48–0[8]
October 152:00 p.m.vs. Virginia
W 12–0[9][10]
October 20vs. CornellW 12–45,000[11]
October 24LehighPrinceton, NJW 32–0900[12]
October 27Volunteer (NY) Athletic AssociationPrinceton, NJW 34–0[13][14]
November 10vs. Penn
L 0–12[15]
November 21at Orange Athletic ClubW 16–4[16]
December 12:08 p.m.vs. Yale
L 0–2420,000–30,000[17][18][19][20]

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