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1917 Princeton Tigers football team

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1917 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–0
Head coach
CaptainJack Winn
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
Seasons
← 1916
1918 →
1917 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Pittsburgh     10 0 0
Williams     7 0 1
Yale     3 0 0
Princeton     2 0 0
Syracuse     8 1 1
Army     7 1 0
Rutgers     7 1 1
Penn     9 2 0
Brown     8 2 0
Fordham     7 2 0
Lehigh     7 2 0
Boston College     6 2 0
Swarthmore     6 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     7 3 0
Colgate     4 2 0
Harvard     3 1 3
New Hampshire     3 2 2
Dartmouth     5 3 0
Geneva     5 3 1
Penn State     5 4 0
Buffalo     4 4 0
NYU     2 2 3
Tufts     3 3 0
Carnegie Tech     2 3 1
Bucknell     3 5 1
Lafayette     3 5 0
Holy Cross     3 4 0
Rhode Island State     2 4 2
Carlisle     3 6 0
Columbia     2 4 0
Delaware     2 5 0
Cornell     3 6 0
Franklin & Marshall     2 6 0
Villanova     0 3 2
Temple     0 6 1
Wissahickon Barracks

The 1917 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1917 college football season. The team finished with a 2–0 record under first-year head coach Keene Fitzpatrick, outscoring opponents by a total of 50 to 0 in games against Fort Dix and Wissahickon Barracks. No Princeton players were selected as first-team honorees on the 1917 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 27 307th Field Artillery of Camp DixW 7–0[1]
November 17 Naval Reserve,Wissahickon Barracks at Cape May, NJ Princeton, NJW 41–0[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Informal Varsity Wins From Soldier Eleven: Touchdown Made in First Few Minutes of Play Brings Victory, 7 to 0". Daily Princetonian. October 29, 1917. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Princeton Trounces Wissahickon Men". New York Tribune. November 18, 1917. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.