1911 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1911 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Princeton University as an independent during the 1911 college football season. In their fifth season under head coach Bill Roper, the Tigers compiled an 8–0–2 record, shut out seven of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 179 to 15.^[1] Tackle Ed Hart was the team captain.

1911 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Helms, Houlgate, Davis) Co-national champion (NCF)
Conference	Independent
Record	8–0–2
Head coach	Bill Roper (5th season)
Offensive scheme	Short punt
Captain	Ed Hart
Home stadium	Osborne Field
Seasons ← 1910 1912 →

1911 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Penn State			–					8	–	0	–	1
Carlisle			–					11	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					8	–	0	–	2
Trinity (CT)			–					6	–	0	–	2
Temple			–					6	–	1	–	0
Army			–					6	–	1	–	1
Swarthmore			–					6	–	1	–	1
Dartmouth			–					8	–	2	–	0
Lafayette			–					8	–	2	–	0
Yale			–					7	–	2	–	1
Harvard			–					6	–	2	–	1
Cornell			–					7	–	3	–	0
Rhode Island State			–					5	–	2	–	1
Brown			–					7	–	3	–	1
Bucknell			–					6	–	3	–	1
Penn			–					7	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					4	–	3	–	1
Washington & Jefferson			–					6	–	4	–	0
Syracuse			–					5	–	3	–	2
Dickinson			–					4	–	4	–	0
Lehigh			–					5	–	5	–	1
Rutgers			–					4	–	4	–	1
Dickinson			–					4	–	4	–	0
St. Bonaventure			–					2	–	2	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					4	–	5	–	0
Holy Cross			–					4	–	5	–	0
Tufts			–					3	–	4	–	0
Vermont			–					3	–	5	–	0
NYU			–					1	–	3	–	3
Colgate			–					3	–	6	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					3	–	6	–	0
New Hampshire			–					1	–	5	–	1
Geneva			–					1	–	6	–	1
Villanova			–					0	–	5	–	1
Boston College			–					0	–	7	–	0

At the end of the season the team was named as the year's champion by The New York Times.^[2] Princeton was later retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and Parke H. Davis, and as a co-national champion (with Penn State) by the National Championship Foundation.^[3]

Three Princeton players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1911 All-America team: end Sanford White; guard Joseph Duff; and tackle Ed Hart.^[4] Other notable players included halfback Talbot Pendleton, fullback Wallace DeWitt, and center Arthur Bluethenthal.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 30	Stevens	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ	W 37–0		[5]
October 4	Rutgers	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 37–0	3,000	[6]
October 7	Villanova	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ	W 31–0		[7]
October 11	Lehigh	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ	T 6–6		[8]
October 14	Colgate	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ	W 31–0		[9]
October 21	at Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	T 0–0		[10]
October 28	Holy Cross	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ	W 20–0		[11]
November 4	Harvard	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 8–6		[12]
November 11	Dartmouth	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ	W 3–0		[13]
November 18	at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 6–3	35,000	[14][15]
Source: [1]