The 1906 Princeton Tigers football team represented

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. In their first season under head coach Bill Roper, the team compiled a 9–0–1 record, shut out eight of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 205 to 9. Herb Dillon was the team captain. There was no contemporaneous system in 1906 for determining a national champion. However, Princeton was retroactively named as the national champion by the

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. Three Princeton players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1906 All-America team: quarterback Edward Dillon; end Caspar Wister; and tackle James Cooney. Other key players included fullback Jim McCormick, who was later inducted into the

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