1924 Princeton Tigers football team

American college football season

1924 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–2–1
Head coach
  • Bill Roper (11th season)
CaptainEd Stout
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
Seasons
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1924 Eastern college football independents records
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Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 9 Dartmouth     7 0 1
No. 3 Yale     6 0 2
No. 8 Penn     9 1 1
Rutgers     7 1 1
Bucknell     8 2 0
Lafayette     7 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     7 2 0
Holy Cross     7 1 1
Army     5 1 2
Syracuse     8 2 1
Fordham     6 2 0
Lehigh     4 1 3
Boston College     6 3 0
Penn State     6 3 1
Princeton     4 2 1
Springfield     4 2 1
Columbia     5 3 1
Pittsburgh     5 3 1
NYU     4 3 1
CCNY     4 3 0
Brown     5 4 0
Carnegie Tech     5 4 0
Colgate     5 4 0
Cornell     4 4 0
Harvard     4 4 0
Tufts     3 4 2
Franklin & Marshall     3 5 1
Villanova     2 5 1
Drexel     2 7 0
Vermont     2 7 0
Temple     1 4 0
Boston University     1 5 0
Buffalo     1 7 0
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1924 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1924 college football season. The team finished with a 4–2–1 record under 11th-year head coach Bill Roper.[1] No Princeton players were consensus honorees on the 1924 College Football All-America Team, but two players received first-team honors from at least one selector. They are: end Edmond Stout (Football World and All-Sports Magazine magazines),[2][3] and tackle Bob Beattie (NEA, Billy Evans and Walter Eckersall),[2][4][5]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 4 AmherstW 40–6
October 11 Lehigh
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
T 0–0
October 18 Navy
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 17–14
October 25 Notre Dame
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
L 0–1240,000[6]
November 1 Swarthmore
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 21–6
November 8at Harvard W 34–0
November 15 Yale
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
L 0–10[7]

References

  1. ^ "1924 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ a b ESPN College Football Encyclopedia, p. 1156
  3. ^ "Hancock Honored on All-American By 'All-Sports'". Iowa City Press-Citizen. December 5, 1924.
  4. ^ "Evans Names Hancock On Second All-American". Iowa City Press-Citizen. December 11, 1924.
  5. ^ "WALTER ECKERSALL'S ALL-AMERICAN ELEVEN HONORS NOTRE DAME". The Washington Post. December 15, 1924.
  6. ^ Harry Schumacher (October 26, 1924). "Notre Dame, Columbia Win: Hoosiers Tame the Tigers Speedy Game, 12-0". New York Daily News. p. 58 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Harry Schumacher (November 16, 1924). "Yale Wins: Bulldog Pulls Tigers' Tail to The Tune of 10-0". New York Daily News. p. 58 – via Newspapers.com.
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