1966 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1966 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Princeton University during the 1966 NCAA University Division football season. Princeton shared the championship of the Ivy League in a three-way tie.

1966 Princeton Tigers football
Ivy League co-champion
ConferenceIvy League
Record7–2 (6–1 Ivy)
Head coach
CaptainWalter J. Kozumbo
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
1966 Ivy League football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Dartmouth + 6 1 07 2 0
Harvard + 6 1 08 1 0
Princeton + 6 1 07 2 0
Cornell 4 3 06 3 0
Yale 3 4 04 5 0
Columbia 2 5 02 7 0
Penn 1 6 02 7 0
Brown 0 7 01 8 0
  • + Conference co-champions

In their tenth year under head coach Dick Colman, the Tigers compiled a 7–2 record and outscored opponents 135 to 103. Walter J. Kozumbo was the team captain.

Princeton's 6–1 conference record earned a three-way tie for first place in the Ivy League standings. The Tigers outscored Ivy opponents 119 to 84. Princeton defeated one of its co-champions, Harvard, while suffering its only in-conference loss to the other co-champion, Dartmouth.

Princeton played its home games at Palmer Stadium on the university campus in Princeton, New Jersey.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.