The 2016 Princeton Tigers football team represented

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in the 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by seventh-year head coach

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and played their home games at

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. Princeton is a member of the

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. They finished the season 8–2 overall and 6–1 in Ivy League play to tie with Penn for the Ivy League title, their first since 2013. Princeton averaged 8,990 fans per game.

Schedule

Game summaries

Lafayette

At Lehigh

At Columbia

At Georgetown

Brown

Harvard

At Cornell

Penn

At Yale

Dartmouth

References

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