The 1897 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1897 college football season.
The team finished with a 10–1 record.
The Tigers won their first ten games by a combined score of 339 to 0, but then lost the last game of the season by a 6–0 score against Yale.
[1] Two Princeton players, halfback Addison Kelly and end Garrett Cochran, were consensus first-team honorees on the 1897 College Football All-America Team.
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