1887 Princeton Tigers football team

American college football season

1887 Princeton Tigers football

Conference| Independent
Record| 7–2
Head coach|

* None

Captain| Woody Wagenhorst

Seasons

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1888 ->

1887 Eastern college football independents records

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Team | W |  | L |  | T |  |  | W |  | L |  | T
Yale |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 9  | - | 0  | - | 0
Penn State |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 0  | - | 0
Harvard |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 10  | - | 1  | - | 0
Lafayette |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 7  | - | 2  | - | 0
Princeton |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 7  | - | 2  | - | 0
Lehigh |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 3  | - | 0
Williams |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 3  | - | 0
Penn |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 6  | - | 7  | - | 0
Wesleyan |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 5  | - | 0
Tufts |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 6  | - | 0
Massachusetts |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 3  | - | 0
Rutgers |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 6  | - | 0
Bucknell |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 2  | - | 0
Cornell |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 2  | - | 0
Franklin & Marshall |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 2  | - | 0
Vermont |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 2  | - | 0

The 1887 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1887 college football season. The team finished with a 7–2 record. The Tigers held their first nine opponents scoreless, winning those games by a combined 420 to 0 score. The team then lost the last two games of the season against Harvard and Yale.[1]

## Schedule

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Date| Opponent| Site| Result| Attendance| Source

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October 8| Lafayette|

* University Field
* Princeton, NJ

| W 47–0| | [2]
October 12| at Rutgers| Hoboken, NJ (rivalry)| W 30–0| 1,500| [3][4]
October 15| Lehigh|

* University Field
* Princeton, NJ

| W 80–0| | [5]
October 19| at Penn| Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)| W 57–0| 3,000| [6]
October 22| Penn|

* University Field
* Princeton, NJ

| W 48–0| | [7]
October 29| Wesleyan|

* University Field
* Princeton, NJ

| W 69–0| | [8]
November 5| at Penn|

* University Athletic Grounds
* Philadelphia, PA

| W 95–0| | [9]
November 12| at Harvard|

* Jarvis Field
* Cambridge, MA (rivalry)

| L 0–12| | [10]
November 19| vs. Yale|

* Polo Grounds
* New York, NY (rivalry)

| L 0–12| | [11]

## Roster

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* Knowlton Ames, FB
* Black
* Boraird
* Roscoe Channing, HB
* Chapin
* Church
* Hector Cowan, T
* William George
* Hancock
* S. Hodge
* William Mann Irvine
* Hugh Janeway, G
* McMahon
* Payne
* Luther E. Price
* Robert Elliott Speer
* Woody Wagenhorst

## References

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1. ^ "1887 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
2. ^ "Foot Ball at Princeton: The Lafayette Team Defeated in the Opening Game". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 9, 1887. p. 9 - via Newspapers.com.
3. ^ "Carried Senseless Off the Field". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 13, 1887. p. 3. Retrieved August 10, 2024 - via Newspapers.com .
4. ^ "Princeton Defeats Rutgers". The New York Times. October 13, 1887. p. 1 - via Newspapers.com.
5. ^ "Princeton Easily Outkicks Lehigh". The Times (Philadelphia). October 16, 1887. p. 3 - via Newspapers.com.
6. ^ "College Foot Ball: Princeton Wins in the Game with the University". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 20, 1887. p. 3 - via Newspapers.com.
7. ^ "Cold Weather Sport: The University Football Team Defeated at Princeton". The Times (Philadelphia). October 23, 1887. p. 2 - via Newspapers.com.
8. ^ "The Football One Sided: Wesleyan Pluck Futile Against Princeton Play". The New York Times. October 30, 1887. p. 2 - via Newspapers.com.
9. ^ "Princeton's Foot-Ball Victory: The Great Score of 95 to 0 With Pennsylvania". The Times (Philadelphia). November 6, 1887. p. 3 - via Newspapers.com.
10. ^ "Harvard Winning At Football". New York Daily Tribune. November 13, 1887. p. 16 - via Newspapers.com.
11. ^ "Yale Triumphs in the Mud". The Sun (New York). November 20, 1887. p. 11 - via Newspapers.com.

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Princeton Tigers football

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* University Field (1876–1913)
* Palmer Stadium (1914–1996)
* Powers Field at Princeton Stadium (1998–present)

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