1951 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1951 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1951 college football season. Led by seventh-year head coach Charlie Caldwell, the team played its home games on campus at Palmer Stadium in Princeton, New Jersey. The independent Tigers won all nine games and were considered the best team in the East, winning the Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy, and finished sixth in both major polls.

1951 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Ranking
CoachesNo. 6
APNo. 6
Record9–0
Head coach
CaptainDavid F. Hickok
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
Seasons
← 1950
1952 →
1951 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Bucknell  900
No. 6 Princeton  900
Susquehanna  600
Trenton State  600
Northeastern  601
No. 19 Holy Cross  820
Carnegie Tech  620
Hofstra  621
Cornell  630
No. 16 Boston University  640
Temple  640
Columbia  530
Villanova  530
Fordham  540
Franklin & Marshall  540
Penn  540
Penn State  540
Syracuse  540
Buffalo  440
Colgate  450
Dartmouth  450
Drexel  340
Harvard  351
Boston College  360
Yale  252
Pittsburgh  370
Geneva  250
Army  270
Brown  270
NYU  170
Tufts  072
Rankings from AP Poll

Senior back Dick Kazmaier was a consensus All-American and won the Heisman Trophy by a wide margin;[1][2] he was the nation's total offense leader and most accurate passer.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29NYUNo. 18W 54–2012,000[4]
October 6at NavyNo. 14W 24–2021,000[5]
October 13at PennNo. 13W 13–760,000[6]
October 20LafayetteNo. 9
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 60–715,000[7]
October 27No. 12 CornellNo. 8
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 53–1549,000[8]
November 3BrownNo. 6
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 12–021,000[9]
November 10at HarvardNo. 4W 54–1322,000[10]
November 17YaleNo. 6
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 27–045,000[11]
November 24DartmouthNo. 5
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 13–027,000[12]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Awards and honors

NFL Draft

Two Tigers were selected in the 1952 NFL Draft, held on January 17.

PlayerPositionRoundOverallFranchise
Dick PivirottoBack15174Pittsburgh Steelers
Dick KazmaierBack15176Chicago Bears
Source:[15]

References