1916 Princeton Tigers football team
{{short description|American college football season}}
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{{Infobox college sports team season
| year = 1916
| team = Princeton Tigers
| sport = football
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| conference = Independent
| record = 6–2
| head_coach = John H. Rush
| hc_year = 2nd
| captain =
| stadium = Palmer Stadium
}}
{{1916 Eastern college football independents records}}
The 1916 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1916 college football season. The team finished with a 6–2 record under second-year head coach John H. Rush.{{cite web|title=1916 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|work=SR/College Football|access-date=February 27, 2017|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/princeton/1916-schedule.html}} Princeton guard Frank T. Hogg was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1916 College Football All-America Team.{{cite web|title=Award Winners|publisher=NCAA|year=2012|pages=2–4|url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2012/Awards.pdf}} Three other Princeton players (end Charles Highley, center Alfred Gennert, and a tackle with the surname McLean) were selected as first-team honorees by at least one selector in 1916.
Schedule
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|September 30|at|Holy Cross|Fitton Field|Worcester, MA|W 21-0|6,000|{{cite news |title=Tigers Get Edge on Holy Cross in Early Periods |date=October 1, 1916 |at=Sporting sect., p. 1 |newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer |location=Philadelphia, Pa.|via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/74227999/1916-princeton-hc }}
|October 7| |North Carolina|Palmer Stadium|Princeton, NJ|W 29-0||
|October 14| |{{cfb link|year=1916|team=Tufts Jumbos|title=Tufts}}|Palmer Stadium|Princeton, NJ|W 3-0||
|October 21| |Lafayette|Palmer Stadium|Princeton, NJ|W 33-0||
|October 28| |Dartmouth|Palmer Stadium|Princeton, NJ|W 7-3||
|November 4| |Bucknell|Palmer Stadium|Princeton, NJ|W 42-0||
|November 11|at|Harvard|Harvard Stadium|Boston, MA (rivalry)|L 0-3||
|November 18| |Yale|Palmer Stadium|Princeton, NJ (rivalry)|L 0-10|42,000|{{cite news|title=Battered Yale Sweeps Tigers To Dire Defeat|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 19, 1916|page=VIII-1|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98185979/battered-yale-sweeps-tigers-to-dire/|via=Newspapers.com}}
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