2016 Princeton Tigers football team

American college football season

2016 Princeton Tigers football

Ivy League co-champion
Conference	Ivy League
Record	8–2 (6–1 Ivy)
Head coach	Bob Surace (7th season)
Offensive coordinator	James Perry (7th season)
Co-defensive coordinator	Steve Verbit
Co-defensive coordinator	Jim Salgado
Home stadium	Powers Field at Princeton Stadium
Seasons← 2015 2017 →

The 2016 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by seventh-year head coach Bob Surace and played their home games at Powers Field at Princeton Stadium. Princeton is a member of the Ivy League. They finished the season 8–2 overall and 6–1 in Ivy League play to tie with Penn for the Ivy League title, their first since 2013. Princeton averaged 8,990 fans per game.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 17	5:00 p.m.	Lafayette*	Powers Field at Princeton Stadium Princeton, NJ	ESPN3	W 35–31	13,420
September 24	12:30 p.m.	at Lehigh*	Goodman Stadium Bethlehem, PA	CI	L 28–42	5,493
October 1	12:00 p.m.	at Columbia	Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium New York, NY	FCS	W 48–13	3,638
October 8	1:00 p.m.	at Georgetown*	Cooper Field Washington, DC	CI	W 31–17	2,263
October 15	3:00 p.m.	Brown	Powers Field at Princeton Stadium Princeton, NJ	ILDN	W 31–7	5,881
October 22	1:00 p.m.	Harvard	Powers Field at Princeton Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	ILDN	L 20–23	9,963
October 29	12:30 p.m.	at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	OWSPN	W 56–7	4,879
November 5	12:00 p.m.	Penn	Powers Field at Princeton Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	ASN	W 28–0	7,367
November 12	12:30 p.m.	at Yale	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	ILDN	W 31–3	15,321
November 19	1:30 p.m.	Dartmouth	Powers Field at Princeton Stadium Princeton, NJ	OWSPN	W 38–21	8,320
*Non-conference game All times are in Eastern time

	1	2	3	4	Total
Leopards	14	7	3	7	31
Tigers	7	14	14	0	35

	1	2	3	4	Total
Tigers	7	7	0	14	28
Mountain Hawks	7	14	14	7	42

	1	2	3	4	Total
Tigers	6	28	14	0	48
Lions	6	0	0	7	13

	1	2	3	4	Total
Tigers	14	7	10	0	31
Hoyas	7	7	3	0	17

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bears	0	0	0	7	7
Tigers	14	14	3	0	31

	1	2	3	4	OT	Total
Crimson	7	7	0	3	6	23
Tigers	0	0	10	7	3	20

	1	2	3	4	Total
Tigers	14	21	14	7	56
Big Red	0	0	7	0	7

	1	2	3	4	Total
Quakers	0	0	0	0	0
Tigers	6	7	8	7	28

	1	2	3	4	Total
Tigers	7	10	0	14	31
Bulldogs	3	0	0	0	3

	1	2	3	4	Total
Big Green	7	7	0	7	21
Tigers	7	3	7	21	38

v t e Princeton Tigers football
Venues	University Field (1876–1913) Palmer Stadium (1914–1996) Powers Field at Princeton Stadium (1998–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Legacy Bowl Harvard Penn Rutgers Yale
Culture & lore	First American football game (painting) 1922 Chicago game Poe brothers "Princeton Cannon Song" Winged football helmet
People	Head coaches NFL draftees
Seasons	1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
National championship seasons in bold

v t e Ivy League football champions
I-A/FBS	Yale (1956) Princeton (1957) Dartmouth (1958) Penn (1959) Yale (1960) Columbia & Harvard (1961) Dartmouth (1962) Dartmouth & Princeton (1963) Princeton (1964) Dartmouth (1965) Dartmouth, Harvard, & Princeton (1966) Yale (1967) Harvard & Yale (1968) Dartmouth, Yale, & Princeton (1969) Dartmouth (1970) Dartmouth & Cornell (1971) Dartmouth (1972) Dartmouth (1973) Yale (1974) Harvard (1975) Yale & Brown (1976) Yale (1977) Dartmouth (1978) Yale (1979) Yale (1980) Yale & Dartmouth (1981)
I-AA/FCS	Dartmouth, Harvard & Penn (1982) Harvard & Penn (1983) Penn (1984) Penn (1985) Penn (1986) Harvard (1987) Penn & Cornell (1988) Yale & Princeton (1989) Dartmouth & Cornell (1990) Dartmouth (1991) Dartmouth & Princeton (1992) Penn (1993) Penn (1994) Princeton (1995) Dartmouth (1996) Harvard (1997) Penn (1998) Brown & Yale (1999) Penn (2000) Harvard (2001) Penn (2002) Penn (2003) Harvard (2004) Brown (2005) Princeton & Yale (2006) Harvard (2007) Harvard & Brown (2008) Penn (2009) Penn (2010) Harvard (2011) Penn (2012) Harvard & Princeton (2013) Harvard (2014) Harvard, Dartmouth, & Penn (2015) Princeton & Penn (2016) Yale (2017) Princeton (2018) Dartmouth & Yale (2019) No season (2020) Dartmouth & Princeton (2021) Yale (2022) Dartmouth, Harvard, & Yale (2023) Columbia, Dartmouth, & Harvard (2024)

I-A/FBS

I-AA/FCS