2007 Princeton Tigers football team

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2007 Princeton Tigers football
Princeton Tigers logo.svg
Conference Ivy League
Record4–6 (3–4 Ivy)
Head coach
Captains
  • Brendan Circle
  • Jon Stern
Home stadium Powers Field at Princeton Stadium
Seasons
←  2006
2008  →
2007 Ivy League football standings
Conf.Overall
Team W L  W L 
No. 21 Harvard $  7 –0   8 –2  
No. 22 Yale  6 –1   9 –1  
Brown  4 –3   5 –5  
Penn  3 –4   4 –6  
Princeton  3 –4   4 –6  
Dartmouth  3 –4   3 –7  
Cornell  2 –5   5 –5  
Columbia  0 –7   1 –9  
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from The Sports Network poll
Lehigh Mountain Hawks at Princeton, 15 September 2007 Princeton Stadium 2.jpg
Lehigh Mountain Hawks at Princeton, 15 September 2007

The 2007 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Princeton University during the 2007 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Princeton tied for fourth in the Ivy League. Princeton averaged 10,215 fans per game.

In their eighth year under head coach Roger Hughes, the Tigers compiled a 4–6 record, though they were outscored 264 to 201. Brendan Circle and Jon Stern were the team captains. [1]

Princeton's 3–4 conference record tied with Dartmouth and Penn for fourth in the Ivy League standings. The Tigers were outscored 171 to 133 by Ivy opponents. [2]

On Nov. 10, The Tigers dedicated their playing field to alumnus William C. Powers after he donated $10 million to the University and renamed played their playing field Powers Field at Princeton Stadium, [3] on the university campus in Princeton, New Jersey.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 15 Lehigh *
L 21–32 8,640 [4]
September 22 at No. 22 Lafayette *
W 20–14 8,921 [5]
September 29 Columbia
  • Princeton Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 42–32 7,926 [1]
October 6 Hampton *
  • Princeton Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
L 27–48 15,329 [6]
October 13 at Brown
L 24–33 6,493 [7]
October 20 at Harvard
L 10–27 12,005 [8]
October 26 Cornell
  • Princeton Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 34–31 5,773 [9]
November 3 at Penn
L 0–7 12,397 [10]
November 10 No. 12 Yale
  • Powers Field at Princeton Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
L 6–27 13,408 [11]
November 17 at Dartmouth
W 17–14 OT 4,017 [12]

References

  1. 1 2 "Results". Princeton Football Record Book. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University. p. 31. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Year-by-Year History". Ivy League Football Media Guide (PDF). Princeton, N.J.: Ivy League. 2017. p. 43. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
  3. ↑ "William C. Powers '79 Gives $10.5 Million to Princeton Football" . Retrieved April 15, 2021.
  4. ↑ Groller, Keith (September 16, 2007). "Young Backfield Leads Lehigh Over Princeton". The Morning Call . Allentown, Pa. p. CC1 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ Haley, Craig (September 23, 2007). "Princeton Slips Past Lafayette as QB Foran Takes Command". The Times . Trenton, N.J. p. C1 – via NewsBank.
  6. ↑ Gorman, Denis (October 7, 2007). "Pirates Shakes Off Slow Start, Dominate Tigers". Daily Press . Newport News, Va. p. B7 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Field Goals, Turnovers Help Brown Down Princeton". Daily Record . Morristown, N.J. Associated Press. October 14, 2007. p. C7 – via Newspapers.com. Attendance figure in "Summaries". Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Mass. October 14, 2007. p. D11.
  8. ↑ Larson, Craig (October 21, 2007). "Harvard's Pizzotti Stars at Improv; Princeton Cannot Contain Quarterback". Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Mass. p. D13 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Big Red Comes Up 1 Rally Short". The Ithaca Journal . Ithaca, N.Y. October 27, 2007. p. 1F – via Newspapers.com. Attendance figure in "College Football". Asbury Park Press . Asbury Park, N.J. October 28, 2007. p. H19.
  10. ↑ Juliano, Joe (November 4, 2007). "One Touchdown Drive Enough to Lift Penn Over Princeton". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Philadelphia, Pa. p. D13 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ Hine, Tommy (November 11, 2007). "Perfect Setting for Yale-Harvard; Denny-Brown TDs Sink Princeton". Hartford Courant . Hartford, Conn. p. E11 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ "Louden's Field Goal in OT Lifts Princeton". Courier News . Bridgewater, N.J. November 18, 2007. p. C-9 – via Newspapers.com. Attendance figure in "Saturday's Scores". Asbury Park Press . Asbury Park, N.J. November 18, 2007. p. H13.
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