1922 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1922 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Princeton University as an independent during the 1922 college football season. In their ninth season under head coach Bill Roper, the Tigers compiled a perfect 8–0 record, shut out five of eight opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 127 to 34.[1] Mel Dickenson was the team captain.

1922 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Boand, CFRA)
Co-national champion (NCF, Davis, Sagarin-ELO)
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–0
Head coach
Offensive schemeShort punt
CaptainMel Dickenson
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
Uniform
Seasons
← 1921
1923 →
1922 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Cornell  800
Princeton  800
Army  802
Syracuse  612
Franklin & Marshall  820
Pittsburgh  820
Holy Cross  721
Harvard  720
Lafayette  720
Springfield  620
Boston College  621
Brown  621
Colgate  630
Dartmouth  630
Penn  630
Vermont  630
Washington & Jefferson  631
Yale  631
Bucknell  740
Penn State  641
Carnegie Tech  531
Villanova  531
Columbia  540
Rutgers  540
Tufts  540
Rhode Island State  440
NYU  450
Fordham  352
Geneva  460
Boston University  243
Lehigh  351
New Hampshire  351
Drexel  240
Temple  141
Buffalo  150
CCNY  160
Duquesne  080

There was no contemporaneous system in 1922 for determining a national champion. However, Princeton was retroactively named as the national champion by the Boand System and College Football Researchers Association, and as a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation, Parke H. Davis, and Jeff Sagarin (using the ELO-Chess methodology).[2] California and Cornell were recognized by some selectors as the national champion or co-champion.

Princeton tackle Herb Treat was a consensus first-team player on the 1922 All-America team.[3] Other notable players on the 1922 team included end Howdy Gray, halfback Jack Cleaves, tackle Harland "Pink" Baker, and guard Mel Dickinson.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30Johns HopkinsW 30–07,400[4]
October 7Virginia
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 5–0[5][6][7]
October 14Colgate
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 10–0[8]
October 21Maryland
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 26–0[9]
October 28at ChicagoW 21–1831,000[10]
November 4Swarthmore
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 22–13[11]
November 11at HarvardW 10–352,000[12]
November 18Yale
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 3–056,000[13]

[1]

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