In their fifth season under head coach Bill Roper, the Tigers compiled an 8–0–2 record, shut out seven of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 179 to 15.
There was no contemporaneous system in 1911 for determining a national champion.
However, Princeton was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and Parke H. Davis, and as a co-national champion (with Penn State) by the National Championship Foundation.
[2] Three Princeton players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1911 All-America team: end Sanford White; guard Joseph Duff; and tackle Ed Hart.
[3] Other notable players included halfback Talbot Pendleton, fullback Wallace DeWitt, and center Arthur Bluethenthal.