1901 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1901 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1901 college football season. The team finished with a 9–1–1 record under first-year head coach Langdon Lea. The Tigers won their first nine games, including eight shutouts, and outscored their opponents by a total of 247 to 24. The team's only loss was in the last game of the season by a 12–0 score against Yale.^[1] Princeton end Ralph Tipton Davis was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1901 College Football All-America Team.^[2]

1901 Princeton Tigers football
Conference	Independent
Record	9–1–1
Head coach	Langdon Lea (1st season)
Captain	Williamson Pell
Home stadium	University Field
Seasons ← 1900 1902 →

1901 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					12	–	0	–	0
Yale			–					11	–	1	–	1
Cornell			–					11	–	1	–	0
Dartmouth			–					10	–	1	–	0
Massachusetts			–					9	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					9	–	1	–	1
Syracuse			–					7	–	1	–	0
Geneva			–					7	–	1	–	1
Holy Cross			–					7	–	1	–	1
Army			–					5	–	1	–	2
Western U. of Penn			–					7	–	2	–	1
Lafayette			–					9	–	3	–	0
Swarthmore			–					8	–	2	–	2
Washington & Jefferson			–					6	–	2	–	2
Frankin & Marshall			–					7	–	3	–	1
Penn			–					10	–	5	–	0
Buffalo			–					4	–	2	–	0
Columbia			–					8	–	5	–	0
Fordham			–					2	–	1	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	3	–	0
Bucknell			–					6	–	4	–	0
Temple			–					3	–	2	–	0
NYU			–					4	–	3	–	1
Pittsburgh College			–					3	–	3	–	0
Tufts			–					6	–	6	–	1
Vermont			–					5	–	5	–	1
Carlisle			–					5	–	7	–	1
Dickinson			–					4	–	6	–	0
Brown			–					4	–	7	–	1
Villanova			–					2	–	3	–	0
Drexel			–					2	–	5	–	1
Colgate			–					2	–	5	–	0
Boston College			–					1	–	8	–	0
Lehigh			–					1	–	11	–	0
New Hampshire			–					0	–	6	–	0
Rutgers			–					0	–	7	–	0

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 2	Villanova	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 35–0		[3]
October 5	Haverford	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 47–0		[4]
October 9	NYU	University Field Princeton, N	W 23–0		[5]
October 12	Lehigh	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 35–0		[6]
October 16	Dickinson	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 23–0		[7]
October 19	Brown	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 35–0		[8]
October 23	Orange Athletic Club	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 29–0		[9]
October 26	Lafayette	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 6–0	3,000	[10]
November 2	at Cornell	Percy Field Ithaca, NY	W 8–6		[11]
November 9	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	T 6–6		[12]
November 16	at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 0–12	> 19,000	[13]