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1918 Princeton Tigers football team

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1918 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–0
Head coach
Offensive schemeShort punt
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
Seasons
← 1917
1919 →
1918 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Bucknell     6 0 0
Princeton     3 0 0
Holy Cross     2 0 0
Army     1 0 0
Buffalo     6 1 0
Columbia     5 1 0
Syracuse     5 1 0
Pittsburgh     4 1 0
Boston College     5 2 0
Rutgers     5 2 0
Franklin & Marshall     2 1 0
Geneva     4 2 0
Swarthmore     4 2 0
Harvard     2 1 0
Fordham     4 2 1
Villanova     3 2 0
Penn     5 3 0
Dartmouth     3 3 0
Lehigh     4 4 0
Washington & Jefferson     2 2 0
New Hampshire     2 2 1
Lafayette     3 4 0
Brown     2 3 0
Tufts     2 3 0
Penn State     1 2 1
Vermont     0 1 1
Drexel     0 1 0
NYU     0 4 0

The 1918 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1918 college football season. The team finished with a 3–0 record under second-year head coach Keene Fitzpatrick, outscoring opponents by a total of 61 to 7 in games against the Navy Pay School, the Government Aero School, and Camp Upton. Princeton quarterback Frank Murrey was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1918 College Football All-America Team.[1]

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 19 Navy Pay SchoolW 26–0
? Government Aero School Princeton, NJW 7–0
November 16 Camp UptonW 28–7[2]

References

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  1. ^ Consensus All-American designations based on the NCAA guide to football award winners Archived July 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Princeton Has Easy Time Beating Camp Upton, 28 to 7". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 17, 1918. p. 32 – via Newspapers.com.