2012 Princeton Tigers football team

The 2012 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 2012 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by third-year head coach Bob Surace and played their home games at Powers Field at Princeton Stadium. They are a member of the Ivy League. They finished the season 5–5 overall and 4–3 in Ivy League play to places in a three-way tie for third. Princeton averaged 7,984 fans per game. Captain Mike Catapano was Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year.^[1] He was drafted in the 2013 NFL draft by the Kansas City Chiefs with the first pick of the seventh round (207th overall) becoming Princeton's first draftee since Dennis Norman in the 2001 NFL draft.^[2]

2012 Princeton Tigers football
Conference	Ivy League
Record	5–5 (4–3 Ivy)
Head coach	Bob Surace (3rd season)
Offensive coordinator	James Perry (3rd season)
Defensive coordinator	Jared Backus (4th season)
Home stadium	Powers Field at Princeton Stadium
Seasons ← 2011 2013 →

2012 Ivy League football standings

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
Penn $		6	–	1					6	–	4
Harvard		5	–	2					8	–	2
Brown		4	–	3					7	–	3
Dartmouth		4	–	3					6	–	4
Princeton		4	–	3					5	–	5
Cornell		2	–	5					4	–	6
Columbia		2	–	5					3	–	7
Yale		1	–	6					2	–	8
$ – Conference champion

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 15	12:30 p.m.	at No. 16 Lehigh*	Goodman Stadium Bethlehem, PA	2 Sports	L 14–17	7,346
September 21	7:00 p.m.	Georgetown*	Powers Field at Princeton Stadium Princeton, NJ	ESPNU	L 20–21	6,792
September 29	12:30 p.m.	at Columbia	Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium New York, NY		W 33–6	4,469
October 6	6:00 p.m.	at Lafayette*	Fisher Stadium Easton, PA		W 35–14	6,821
October 13	12:00 p.m.	Brown	Powers Field at Princeton Stadium Princeton, NJ	NBCSN	W 19–0	6,482
October 20	1:00 p.m.	No. 22 Harvard	Powers Field at Princeton Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	ESPN3	W 39–34	10,823
October 27	12:30 p.m.	at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY		L 35–37	4,420
November 3	1:00 p.m.	Penn	Powers Field at Princeton Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	ESPN3	L 21–28	7,494
November 10	12:00 p.m.	at Yale	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	YES	W 29–7	21,824
November 17	1:00 p.m.	Dartmouth	Powers Field at Princeton Stadium Princeton, NJ		L 21–35	8,327
*Non-conference game Rankings from The Sports Network Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time