1950 Princeton Tigers football team
| 1950 Princeton Tigers football | |
|---|---|
| Conference | Ivy League |
| Ranking | |
| Coaches | No. 6 |
| AP | No. 6 |
| 1950 record | 9–0 (5–0 Ivy League) |
| Head coach | Charlie Caldwell |
| Offensive scheme | Unbalanced single-wing |
| Home stadium | Palmer Stadium |
The 1950 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) intercollegiate competition during the 1950 season. The Tigers were led by sixth-year head coach Charlie Caldwell, a future College Football Hall of Fame inductee, who utilized an "unbalanced" version of the single-wing formation.[2] The Princeton offense, which made use of the buck-lateral series, was one of the last successful employers of the single-wing formation, which had been made obsolete by the modernized T formation.[3]
Princeton finished with a perfect undefeated record of 9–0, and the Tigers outscored their opponents 349–94. Against other Ivy League teams, Princeton compiled a 5–0 record and outscored their opponents 184–45, although the conference did not begin awarding a football championship until 1956.[4]
Some selectors named Princeton the national champions, most notably the NCAA-recognized Poling System and Boand System.[5] Princeton was the sixth-ranked team in both the Associated Press and United Press final polls. After the season, Tigers halfback Dick Kazmaier, tackle Holland Donan, and center Redmond Finney received first-team All-America honors.[6] Kazmaier and Donan were eventually inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.[7][8]
Schedule
| Date | Opponent# | Rank# | Site | Result | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 30, 1950 | Williams | Palmer Stadium • Princeton, New Jersey | W 66–0 | ||||||
| October 7, 1950 | Rutgers | Palmer Stadium • Princeton, New Jersey | W 34–28 | ||||||
| October 14, 1950 | Navy | Palmer Stadium • Princeton, New Jersey | W 20–14 | ||||||
| October 21, 1950 | at Brown | Brown Stadium • Providence, Rhode Island | W 34–0 | ||||||
| October 28, 1950 | Cornell | Palmer Stadium • Princeton, New Jersey | W 27–0 | ||||||
| November 4, 1950 | Colgate | No. 10 | Palmer Stadium • Princeton, New Jersey | W 45–7 | |||||
| November 11, 1950 | Harvard | No. 8 | Palmer Stadium • Princeton, New Jersey | W 63–26 | |||||
| November 18, 1950 | Yale | No. 7 | Yale Bowl • New Haven, Connecticut | W 47–12 | |||||
| November 25, 1950 | Dartmouth | No. 7 | Palmer Stadium • Princeton, New Jersey | W 13–7 | |||||
*Non-conference game.  Homecoming. | |||||||||
References
- ↑ The Poling System and the Boand System computed Princeton as the 1950 national championship team.
- ↑ A Very Brief Look at "the" Single-Wing, Coach Wyatt, retrieved June 19, 2009. Archived 2009-06-22.
- ↑ Masin, Herman L., [It Fit the Millennium To A T! http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-27450841_ITM], Coach and Athletic Director, 2000, retrieved August 14, 2010.
- ↑ 1950 Princeton Tigers, College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved June 19, 2009. Archived 2009-06-22.
- ↑ "National Poll Champions", 2007 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF), p. 77, National Collegiate Athletic Association, 2007. Accessed 2009-06-19. Archived 2009-06-22.
- ↑ ESPN College Football Encyclopedia, p. 1218, New York: ESPN Books, 2005, ISBN 1-4013-3703-1.
- ↑ Dick "Kaz" Kazmaier, College Football Hall of Fame, National Football Foundation, retrieved 30 April 2010.
- ↑ Hollie Donan, College Football Hall of Fame, National Football Foundation, retrieved 30 April 2010.