2017 Princeton Tigers football team explained

Year:2017
Team:Princeton Tigers
Sport:football
Conference:Ivy League
Short Conf:Ivy
Record:5–5
Conf Record:2–5
Head Coach:Bob Surace
Hc Year:8th
Off Coach:Sean Gleeson
Oc Year:1st
Codef Coach1:Steve Verbit

The 2017 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by eighth-year head coach Bob Surace and played their home games at Powers Field at Princeton Stadium. Princeton is a member of the Ivy League. They finished the season 5–5 overall and 2–5 in Ivy League play to place seventh. Princeton averaged 7,366 fans per game.

Schedule

The 2017 schedule consisted of six home games and four away games. The Tigers hosted Ivy League foes Columbia, Cornell, and Yale, and traveled to Brown, Harvard, Penn, and Dartmouth.

Princeton's non-conference opponents were San Diego of the Pioneer Football League and Lafayette and Georgetown of the Patriot League.[1]

Game summaries

San Diego

See also: 2017 San Diego Toreros football team.

Lafayette

See also: 2017 Lafayette Leopards football team.

Columbia

See also: 2017 Columbia Lions football team.

Georgetown

See also: 2017 Georgetown Hoyas football team.

Brown

See also: 2017 Brown Bears football team.

Harvard

See also: 2017 Harvard Crimson football team and Harvard–Princeton football rivalry.

Cornell

See also: 2017 Cornell Big Red football team.

Penn

See also: 2017 Penn Quakers football team and Penn–Princeton football rivalry.

Yale

See also: 2017 Yale Bulldogs football team and Princeton–Yale football rivalry.

Dartmouth

See also: 2017 Dartmouth Big Green football team.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Future Varsity Schedules. Princeton Tigers. 13 March 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170416090203/http://www.goprincetontigers.com/news/2006/6/22/301038.aspx. 2017-04-16. dead.