1892 Princeton Tigers football team

1892 Princeton Tigers football
Conference Independent
1892 record 12–2
Head coach No coach
Captain Philip King
1892 Eastern Independent Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Purdue 4 – 0 – 0     8 – 0 – 0
Minnesota 3 – 0 – 0     5 – 0 – 0
Penn 5 – 0 – 0     15 – 1 – 0
Princeton 5 – 1 – 0     12 – 2 – 0
Stevens 1 – 0 – 0     1 – 1 – 0
Navy 2 – 2 – 0     5 – 2 – 0
Wisconsin 2 – 3 – 0     7 – 5 – 0
Michigan 2 – 3 – 0     7 – 5 – 0
Northwestern 2 – 3 – 2     6 – 4 – 2
Illinois 1 – 2 – 1     7 – 4 – 1
Lehigh 1 – 4 – 0     3 – 6 – 0
Lafayette 2 – 6 – 0     5 – 7 – 0
Chicago 1 – 4 – 1     8 – 4 – 1
Rutgers 1 – 4 – 0     3 – 5 – 1

The 1892 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1892 college football season. The team finished with a 12–2 record. The Tigers recorded 12 shutouts and outscored opponents by a combined total of 433 to 18. The team's sole losses were against Penn and Yale.[1] Two Princeton players, quarteback Philip King and guard Art Wheeler, were consensus first-team honorees on the 1892 College Football All-America Team.[2] Both were also inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

References

  1. ↑ "Princeton Yearly Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
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