Princeton Tigers football
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| First season | 1869 | ||
| Athletic director | Gary Walters | ||
| Head coach |
Bob Surace 7th year, 33–37 (.471) |
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| Stadium | Princeton University Stadium | ||
| Seating capacity | 27,773 | ||
| Field surface | FieldTurf | ||
| Location | Princeton, New Jersey | ||
| Conference | Ivy League | ||
| All-time record | 791–369–51 (.674) | ||
| Claimed nat'l titles | 28 | ||
| Conference titles | 11 | ||
| Heisman winners | 1 | ||
| Consensus All-Americans | 93 | ||
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| Colors | Black and Orange |
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| Fight song | "Princeton Cannon Song" | ||
| Marching band | Princeton University Band | ||
| Rivals |
Yale Bulldogs Harvard Crimson Penn Quakers Dartmouth Big Green Rutgers Scarlet Knights (1869–1980) |
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| Website | GoPrincetonTigers.com | ||
The Princeton Tigers football program represents Princeton University and competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision, formerly Division I-AA. Princeton’s football program—along with the football program at nearby Rutgers University—is the oldest in the world. The schools competed in American football's first intercollegiate contest in 1869.
Students from The College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) traveled to New Brunswick, New Jersey on November 6, 1869 to play Rutgers College (now Rutgers University) in a new variant of rugby called football. Rutgers won the inaugural game 6 runs to 4 runs. A week later, Rutgers students traveled to Princeton, New Jersey for a rematch, which Princeton won.
Due in part to their invention of the sport, the Tigers were one of the dominant forces in the early days of intercollegiate football, winning 22 of the first 40 national titles (between 1869 and 1909). As the sport transformed at the hands of figures like Penn's John Heisman and Yale’s Walter Camp and more schools began competing, Princeton and the rest of the eventual Ivy League faded out of national championship contention. The Tigers won their last national championship in 1950 when Dick Kazmaier, the 1951 Heisman Trophy winner, was a junior.
When Princeton joined Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, and Yale Universities, Dartmouth College, and the University of Pennsylvania in formally organizing the Ivy League athletic conference in 1955, conference rules prohibited post-season play in football. (Princeton never competed in the post-season.) The policy further insulated Princeton and the Ivy League from the national spotlight. Despite an undefeated season in 1964, Princeton was not among the top 10 teams in the season-ending AP Poll.
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