1891 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1891 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1891 college football season. The team finished with a 12–1 record. The Tigers recorded 12 shutouts and outscored opponents by a combined total of 391 to 0 in their first 12 games. The team's sole loss was in the final game of the season by a 19–0 score against Yale.

1891 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record12–1
Head coach
  • None
CaptainRalph Warren
Home stadiumUniversity Field
1891 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale    13 0 0
Harvard    13 1 0
Princeton    12 1 0
Tufts    7 1 0
Penn    11 2 0
Colgate    4 1 0
Army    4 1 1
Navy    5 2 0
Cornell    7 3 0
Geneva    4 2 0
Washington & Jefferson    4 2 0
Lehigh    7 4 0
Delaware    5 3 1
Rutgers    8 6 0
Brown    4 6 0
Springfield YMCA    5 8 1
Fordham    1 2 1
Syracuse    4 7 0
Massachusetts    2 5 0
Western Univ. Penn.    2 6 0
Lafayette    2 9 1
Columbia    1 5 0
Wesleyan    1 6 0

Three Princeton players, quarterback Philip King, fullback Sheppard Homans, Jr., and guard Jesse Riggs, were consensus first-team honorees on the 1891 College Football All-America Team.

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