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American college football season
The 1926 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1926 college football season. The team finished with a 5–1–1 record under 13th-year head coach Bill Roper. The Tigers' sole loss of the season was to Navy by a 27–13 score.[1] No Princeton players were selected as first-team honorees on the 1926 College Football All-America Team.
Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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October 2 | Amherst | | W 14–7 | |
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October 9 | Washington and Lee | - Palmer Stadium
- Princeton, NJ
| T 7–7 | | [2]
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October 16 | Navy | - Palmer Stadium
- Princeton, NJ
| L 13–27 | | [3]
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October 23 | Lehigh | - Palmer Stadium
- Princeton, NJ
| W 7–6 | | [4]
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October 30 | Swarthmore | - Palmer Stadium
- Princeton, NJ
| W 27–0 | |
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November 6 | at Harvard | | W 12–0 | 55,000 | [5]
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November 13 | Yale | - Palmer Stadium
- Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
| W 10–7 | 55,000 | [6]
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- ^ "1926 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
- ^ "Washington and Lee draws with Princeton". Allentown Morning Call. October 10, 1926. Retrieved December 9, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ W. O. McGeehan (October 17, 1926). "Navy Team Beats Princeton: Middies Make Strong Finish". The Baltimore Sun. pp. Sports 1, 2 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Princeton Tigers Pressed To Defeat Lehigh, 7-6". New York Daily News. October 24, 1926. p. 43 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Tigers Triumph Over Harvard in First "Big 3" Football Game: Harvard's Hopes Are Higher Than Ability as Princeton Sweeps on to 12-0 Victory". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 7, 1926. pp. C1, C2 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ William J. Lee (November 14, 1926). "Princeton Trounces Yale, 10-7: 55,000 People See Game That Decides Possible Final Championship of Famous 'Big Three'". The Hartford Courant. pp. I-1, IV-1 – via Newspapers.com.
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