1928 Princeton Tigers football team

1928 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	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.^[1] Princeton center Charles Howe was selected by the Associated Press as a first-team honoree on the 1928 College Football All-America Team.^[2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 6	Vermont	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 50–0		^[3]
October 13	Virginia	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	T 0–0		^[4]
October 20	Lehigh	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 47–0
October 27	Cornell	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 3–0
November 3	at Ohio State	Ohio Stadium Columbus, OH	T 6–6	74,000	^[5]
November 10	Washington and Lee	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 25–12
November 17	Yale	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 12–2	60,000	^[6]
November 24	vs. Navy	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–9		^[7]

^ "1928 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
^ Alan J. Gould (December 8, 1928). "Associated Press Gives Views on America's Best Gridders". The Salt Lake Tribune.
^ "Tigers claw Vermonters at will in 50–0 parade". Daily News. October 7, 1928. Retrieved June 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "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.
^ 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.
^ Perry Lewis (November 18, 1928). "Tigers Top Eli: Tiger Thrusts Rend Bulldogs Before 60,000". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. 1S, 2S – via Newspapers.com.
^ 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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