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1928 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–1–2
Head coach
CaptainCharles Howe
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
Seasons← 19271929 →
1928 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Boston College     9 0 0
West Chester     8 0 0
Villanova     7 0 1
Brown     8 1 0
No. 11 Penn     8 1 0
No. 6 Carnegie Tech     7 1 0
No. 9 Army     8 2 0
Drexel     8 2 0
No. 10 NYU     8 2 0
Temple     7 1 2
Lafayette     6 1 2
Princeton     5 1 2
CCNY     4 1 2
Pittsburgh     6 2 1
Harvard     5 2 1
Tufts     5 2 1
Colgate     6 3 0
Rutgers     6 3 0
Bucknell     5 2 3
Columbia     5 3 1
Boston University     3 3 2
Cornell     3 3 2
Syracuse     4 4 1
Yale     4 4 0
Fordham     4 5 0
Franklin & Marshall     4 5 0
Penn State     3 5 1
Lehigh     3 6 0
Washington & Jefferson     2 5 2
Providence     1 5 3
Vermont     1 7 2
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1928 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1928 college football season. The Tigers finished with a 5–1–2 record under 15th-year head coach Bill Roper. Princeton center Charles Howe was selected by the Associated Press as a first-team honoree on the 1928 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 6 VermontW 50–0
October 13 Virginia
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
T 0–0
October 20 Lehigh
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 47–0
October 27 Cornell
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 3–0
November 3at Ohio StateT 6–674,000
November 10 Washington and Lee
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 25–12
November 17 Yale
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 12–260,000
November 24vs. NavyL 0–9

References

  1. "1928 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. Alan J. Gould (December 8, 1928). "Associated Press Gives Views on America's Best Gridders". The Salt Lake Tribune.
  3. "Tigers claw Vermonters at will in 50–0 parade". Daily News. October 7, 1928. Retrieved June 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Tigers Held To 0-0 Tie By U. of Virginia: Roper Machine Unable to Crash Cavalier Line". New York Daily News. October 14, 1928. p. 68 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. Grantland Rice (November 4, 1928). "Tigers Battle Ohio to 6-All Deadlock Before 74,000 Fans". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. 1S, 2S – via Newspapers.com.
  6. Perry Lewis (November 18, 1928). "Tigers Top Eli: Tiger Thrusts Rend Bulldogs Before 60,000". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. 1S, 2S – via Newspapers.com.
  7. Perry Lewiss (November 25, 1928). "Navy Vanquishes Tiger Foemen by 9 to 0: "Whitey" Lloyd Ties Knot in Tiger's Tail with 76-Yard Gallop". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 1S – via Newspapers.com.
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