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The 1951 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1951 college football season. Led by seventh-year head coach Charlie Caldwell, the team played its home games on campus at Palmer Stadium in Princeton, New Jersey. The independent Tigers won all nine games and were considered the best team in the East, winning the Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy, and finished sixth in both major polls.

ConferenceIndependent
CoachesNo. 6
APNo. 6
Record9–0
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1951 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Ranking
CoachesNo. 6
APNo. 6
Record9–0
Head coach
CaptainDavid F. Hickok
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
Seasons
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1951 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Bucknell – 9–0–0
No. 6 Princeton – 9–0–0
Susquehanna – 6–0–0
Trenton State – 6–0–0
Northeastern – 6–0–1
No. 19 Holy Cross – 8–2–0
Carnegie Tech – 6–2–0
Hofstra – 6–2–1
Cornell – 6–3–0
No. 16 Boston University – 6–4–0
Temple – 6–4–0
Columbia – 5–3–0
Villanova – 5–3–0
Fordham – 5–4–0
Franklin & Marshall – 5–4–0
Penn – 5–4–0
Penn State – 5–4–0
Syracuse – 5–4–0
Buffalo – 4–4–0
Colgate – 4–5–0
Dartmouth – 4–5–0
Drexel – 3–4–0
Harvard – 3–5–1
Boston College – 3–6–0
Yale – 2–5–2
Pittsburgh – 3–7–0
Geneva – 2–5–0
Army – 2–7–0
Brown – 2–7–0
NYU – 1–7–0
Tufts – 0–7–2
Rankings from AP Poll
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Senior back Dick Kazmaier was a consensus All-American and won the Heisman Trophy by a wide margin;[1][2] he was the nation's total offense leader and most accurate passer.[3]

Schedule

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DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29NYUNo. 18W 54–2012,000[4]
October 6at NavyNo. 14W 24–2021,000[5]
October 13at PennNo. 13W 13–760,000[6]
October 20LafayetteNo. 9
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 60–715,000[7]
October 27No. 12 CornellNo. 8
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 53–1549,000[8]
November 3BrownNo. 6
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 12–021,000[9]
November 10at HarvardNo. 4W 54–1322,000[10]
November 17YaleNo. 6
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 27–045,000[11]
November 24DartmouthNo. 5
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 13–027,000[12]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
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Awards and honors

NFL draft

Two Tigers were selected in the 1952 NFL draft, held on January 17.

PlayerPositionRoundOverallFranchise
Dick PivirottoBack15174Pittsburgh Steelers
Dick KazmaierBack15176Chicago Bears

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