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1932 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–2–3
Head coach
CaptainF. Tremiane "Josh" Billings Jr.
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
Seasons← 19311933 →
1932 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 5 Colgate     9 0 0
Brown     7 1 0
Columbia     7 1 1
Pittsburgh     8 1 2
No. 8 Army     8 2 0
Drexel     5 1 1
Massachusetts State     7 2 0
Villanova     7 2 0
Duquesne     7 2 1
Fordham     6 2 0
Penn     6 2 0
Temple     5 1 2
Tufts     5 1 2
Cornell     5 2 1
Franklin & Marshall     4 2 1
Boston College     4 2 2
La Salle     4 2 2
Harvard     5 3 0
NYU     5 3 0
Washington & Jefferson     5 3 1
Manhattan     6 3 2
Carnegie Tech     4 3 2
Bucknell     4 4 1
Syracuse     4 4 1
Princeton     2 2 3
Yale     2 2 3
Boston University     2 3 2
Vermont     2 4 1
CCNY     2 5 0
Penn State     2 5 0
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1932 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1932 college football season. The Tigers finished with a 2–2–3 record under first-year head coach Fritz Crisler. No Princeton players were selected as first-team honorees on the 1932 College Football All-America Team.

Prior to 1932, Crisler was the head football coach at Minnesota. In February 1932, he was signed to a three-year contract with Princeton at an annual salary in excess of $10,000.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 1 AmherstW 22–010,000
October 8at ColumbiaL 7–2034,000
October 15 Cornell
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
T 0–025,000
October 22 Navy
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
T 0–040,000
October 29at MichiganL 7–1426,424
November 5 Lehigh
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 53–015,000
November 12 Yale
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
T 7–755,000

References

  1. "1932 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. "'Fritz' Crisler Signs As 'Tiger' Grid Coach For Three-Year Term". The Courier-News. February 26, 1932. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Princeton Impresses In Routing Amherst: Little Jeffs Bowled Over By Fighting Tigers, 22-0". The Sunday Times (New Brunswick, NJ). October 2, 1932. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Columbia Defeats Princeton, 20-7; Gallant Tiger Team Fights Bravely but Bows to Lions, 20-7". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 9, 1932. pp. C1, C7 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. Thomas Holmes (October 16, 1932). "Princeton, Cornell In Scoreless Tie". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. pp. C1, C5 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Navy Battles Princeton to Scoreless Tie: Middies Surprise 40,000 Fans by Completely Outplaying Princeton Eleven". The Shreveport (LA) Times. October 23, 1932. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. Tod Rockwell (October 30, 1932). "Michigan Downs Tigers, 14-7: Wolverines Come From Rear to Win". Detroit Free Press. pp. Sports 1, 4, 5.
  8. "Princeton End Lehigh Supremacy". The Portsmouth (OH) Sunday Times. November 6, 1932. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. Henry McLemore (November 13, 1932). "Princeton Forward Passes Way to Touchdown in Last 4 Minutes to Tie Yale, 7-7". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. p. 2C – via Newspapers.com.
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