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The 1952 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Princeton University during the 1952 college football season. In their eighth year under head coach Charlie Caldwell, the Tigers compiled an 8–1 record and outscored opponents 297 to 74. Frank M. McPhee was the team captain.[1]

ConferenceIndependent
CoachesNo. 14
APNo. 19
Record8–1
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1952 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Ranking
CoachesNo. 14
APNo. 19
Record8–1
Head coach
CaptainFrank M. McPhee
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
Seasons
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1952 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Rochester – 8–0–0
Hofstra – 8–1–0
No. 19 Princeton – 8–1–0
Franklin & Marshall – 7–1–0
Villanova – 7–1–1
Holy Cross – 8–2–0
Yale – 7–2–0
Penn State – 7–2–1
No. 14 Syracuse – 7–3–0
Bucknell – 6–3–0
Colgate – 6–3–0
Pittsburgh – 6–3–0
Carnegie Tech – 4–3–0
Harvard – 5–4–0
Boston University – 5–4–1
Penn – 4–3–2
Army – 4–4–1
Boston College – 4–4–1
Tufts – 3–4–1
Drexel – 3–4–0
Fordham – 2–5–1
NYU – 2–5–1
Columbia – 2–6–1
Brown – 2–7–0
Cornell – 2–7–0
Dartmouth – 2–7–0
Temple – 2–7–1
Buffalo – 1–7–0
Rankings from AP Poll
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The Tigers were ranked No. 12 in the preseason AP poll and stayed in the top 20 until suffering their only loss of the year, in mid-October. They then re-entered the rankings in mid-November and finished the year as the only ranked Ivy Group team.

Princeton played its home games at Palmer Stadium on the university campus in Princeton, New Jersey.

Schedule

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DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27 at Columbia No. 12 W 14–0 30,000 [2]
October 4 Rutgers No. 13
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 61–19 25,000 [3]
October 11 Penn No. 10
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
L 7–13 40,000 [4]
October 18 Lafayette
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 48–0 10,000 [5]
October 25 at Cornell W 27–0 28,000 [6]
November 1 Brown
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 39–0 13,000 [7]
November 8 Harvard No. 19
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 41–21 35,000 [8]
November 15 at Yale No. 16 W 27–21 62,000 [9]
November 22 Dartmouth No. 17
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 33–0 26,000 [10]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
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