The 1897 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1897 college football season. The team finished with a 10–1 record. The Tigers won their first ten games by a combined score of 339 to 0, but then lost the last game of the season by a 6–0 score against Yale. Two Princeton players, halfback Addison Kelly and end Garrett Cochran, were consensus first-team honorees on the 1897 College Football All-America Team.
Schedule
Roster Armstrong, G Ayers, FB John Baird, QB W. H. Bannard, HB Walter C. Booth, C Garrett Cochran, E Samuel G. Craig, E James L. Crane, HB Edward Crowdis, G Dickey, G Big Bill Edwards, G Geer, T Art Hillebrand, T Edgar Holt, T Addison Kelly, HB G. Lathrop H. Lathrop, E Oglesby, E Lew Palmer, QB Potter, G Reid, HB Howard R. Reiter, HB Rosengarten, QB Billy Suter, HB Schwartz, E Wheeler, FB
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