1941 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1941 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Princeton University in the Ivy League during the 1941 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Tad Wieman, the team compiled a 2–6 record and was outscored by a total of 152 to 64.^[1]

Record2–6 (1–4 Ivy)

Headcoach

CaptainBob Peters

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1941 Ivy League football standings
v t e	Conf.					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 15 Penn $	5	–	0	–	0	7	–	1	–	0
Columbia	3	–	1	–	0	3	–	5	–	0
Harvard	4	–	2	–	0	5	–	2	–	1
Cornell	3	–	2	–	0	5	–	3	–	0
Dartmouth	2	–	2	–	0	5	–	4	–	0
Brown	1	–	2	–	0	5	–	4	–	0
Princeton	1	–	4	–	0	2	–	6	–	0
Yale	0	–	6	–	0	1	–	7	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

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Princeton was ranked at No. 76 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.^[2]

The team played its home games at Palmer Stadium in Princeton, New Jersey.

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 4	Williams*	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 20–7	11,000	^[3]
October 11	Columbia	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	L 0–21	30,000	^[4]
October 18	No. 11 Penn	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 0–23	31,500	^[5]
October 25	at No. 15 Vanderbilt*	Dudley Field Nashville, TN	L 7–46	14,000	^[6]
November 1	Harvard	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 4–6	18,000	^[7]
November 8	Dartmouth	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	L 13–20	30,000	^[8]
November 15	at Yale	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 20–6	35,000	^[9]
November 22	No. 12 Navy*	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	L 0–23	42,000	^[10]
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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