Date: October 4th, 2005 5:29 PM
Author: Honey-headed shrine skinny woman
Subject: Street & Smith proclaims Princeton 10th best ever
PRINCETON FOOTBALL Earns No. 10 Spot in Street & Smith's 50 Greatest
College Football Programs
With the Tigers off to a 3-0 start (Lafayette, 23-21, San Diego,
20-17, Columbia, 43-3) and three games in New England coming up
(Brown 10/15, Harvard 10/22, Dartmouth 11/19), it's great to hear
that the likes of Kazmaier, Crisler and Elias have moved Princeton
into the elite football programs in the nation.
The Princeton University football program has been recognized as the
10th greatest college football program of all time by Street &
Smith's Specialty Publications new book, "50 Greatest College
Football Programs of All Time," to be available at newsstands on Oct.
4. The Princeton spread encapsulates the football team's proud
history and includes such football greats as: Fritz Crisler, Dick
Kazmaier and Keith Elias.
Notre Dame University tops the list, with USC, Oklahoma, Alabama and
Nebraska rounding out the top five. Michigan, Yale, Ohio State, Texas
and Princeton complete the top 10.
Street & Smith's graded each program's football history - reaching
back to the game's origins in the 1860s - on a combination of
national championships, undefeated seasons, major bowl wins and
appearances, conference championships, all-time winning percentage,
graduation rate, All-Americans, Heisman Trophy winners, No. 1 draft
picks, NCAA infractions, and even mascot ferocity.
Despite the 1982 shift to 1-AA, the Ivy League claimed 4 schools on
the list. Yale, the seventh-ranked team, led the conference but was
followed closely by Princeton (10). Harvard (22) and Penn (41) finish
out the top 50.
Princeton, which played the first college football game ever in 1869
against Rutgers, entered the 2005 season with 757 all-time wins and
28 national championships, including the 1922 title won by the
historic "Team of Destiny." Princeton's greatest individual star,
Kazmaier, won the 1951 Heisman Trophy. There have been 92 First-Team
All-America selections and 26 members of the Princeton football
program enshrined in the National Football Hall of Fame (21 players,
five coaches).
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