National champion (Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate) Co-national champion (NCF, Davis)
Conference
Independent
Record
10–0–1
Head coach
Franklin Morse (1st season)
Captain
Garrett Cochran
Seasons
← 1895
1897 →
1896 Eastern college football independents records
v
t
e
Conf
Overall
Team
W
L
T
W
L
T
Fordham
–
1
–
0
–
0
Lafayette
–
11
–
0
–
1
Princeton
–
10
–
0
–
1
Washington & Jefferson
–
8
–
0
–
1
Penn
–
14
–
1
–
0
Yale
–
13
–
1
–
0
Pittsburgh College
–
11
–
2
–
0
Buffalo
–
9
–
1
–
2
Villanova
–
10
–
4
–
0
Bucknell
–
5
–
2
–
1
Harvard
–
7
–
4
–
0
Boston College
–
5
–
3
–
0
Storrs
–
5
–
3
–
0
Cornell
–
5
–
3
–
1
Syracuse
–
5
–
3
–
2
Temple
–
3
–
2
–
0
Army
–
3
–
2
–
1
Rutgers
–
6
–
6
–
0
Carlisle
–
5
–
5
–
0
Holy Cross
–
2
–
2
–
2
Brown
–
4
–
5
–
1
Wesleyan
–
4
–
5
–
1
Frankin & Marshall
–
3
–
4
–
2
Geneva
–
3
–
4
–
0
Penn State
–
3
–
4
–
0
Colgate
–
3
–
4
–
1
Amherst
–
3
–
6
–
1
Western Univ. Penn.
–
3
–
6
–
0
Lehigh
–
2
–
5
–
0
Tufts
–
2
–
6
–
1
Swarthmore
–
2
–
6
–
0
New Hampshire
–
1
–
4
–
0
Drexel
–
1
–
5
–
0
Massachusetts
–
0
–
4
–
0
Rhode Island
–
0
–
4
–
0
The 1896 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Princeton University as an independent during the 1896 college football season. The team finished with a 10–0–1 record, shut out 10 of 12 opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 266 to 5.[1] Franklin Morse was the head coach, and Garrett Cochran was the team captain.
There was no contemporaneous system in 1896 for determining a national champion. However, Princeton was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, and Houlgate System, and as a co-national champion with Lafayette by the National Championship Foundation (NCF) and Parke H. Davis.[2] In head-to-head competition, Princeton and Lafayette played to a scoreless tie on October 7, 1896.[3]
Four Princeton players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1896 All-America team: halfback Addison Kelly; fullback John Baird; center Robert Gailey; and tackle William W. Church.[4] Other notable players included quarterback F. L. Smith, halfback William Bannard, end Garrett Cochran, and guard Edward Crowdis.
^"1896 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
^National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
^Cite error: The named reference laf was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
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