The 1920 Princeton Tigers football team was an
American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...
team that represented
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...
as an independent during the
1920 college football season
The 1920 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing California, Georgia, Harvard, Notre Dame, and Princeton as national champions. Only California and Princeton claim na ...
. They finished with a 6–0–1 record, shut out four of seven opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 144 to 23. the sole blemish on the team's record was a 14–14 tie with
Harvard
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
in a road game in
Boston
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.
Bill Roper was the head coach for the seventh year.
Keene Fitzpatrick
Dennis Keene Fitzpatrick (December 25, 1864 – May 22, 1944) was an American track coach, athletic trainer, professor of physical training and gymnasium director for 42 years at Yale University (1890–1891, 1896–1898), the University of Mic ...
,
Frank Glick, and
Jack Winn were assistant coaches. Henry Callahan was the team captain.
There was no contemporaneous system in 1920 for determining a
national champion. However, Princeton was retroactively named as the co-national champion by the
Boand System and
Parke H. Davis.
The
1920 California Golden Bears football team were selected as national champion by the majority of selectors.
Two Princeton players, quarterback
Donold Lourie
Donold B. Lourie (August 22, 1899 – January 15, 1990) was an American businessman, government official, and college football player. He served for many years as the president of the Quaker Oats Company, and held various other executive positions ...
and tackle
Stan Keck, were selected as consensus first-team players on the
1920 All-America team.
Keck was later inducted into the
College Football Hall of Fame
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.
Other notable players included fullback
Hank Garrity and end
Armant Legendre.
Schedule
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References
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Princeton
Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ni ...
Princeton Tigers football seasons
College football national champions
College football undefeated seasons
Princeton Tigers football
The Princeton Tigers football program represents Princeton University and competes at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) NCAA Division I Football Championship, Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level as a member ...