1877 Princeton Tigers football team

1877 Princeton Tigers football
Intercollegiate Football Association champion
National champion (Billingsley)
Co-national champion (Davis)
Conference Intercollegiate Football Association
1877 record 2–0–1 (?–? IFA)
Head coach No coach
Captain Earl Dodge
1877 college football records
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Yale         3 0 1
Princeton         2 0 1
Amherst         1 0 0
Harvard         3 1 0
Columbia         1 2 0
Rutgers         1 2 0
Stevens Tech         1 3 0
Tufts         0 3 0

The 1877 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey in the 1877 college football season. The team finished with a 2–0–1 record and was retroactively named national champion by the Billingsley Report and as co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.[1][2] This season marked the seventh national championship in nine years, and one of 11 in a 13-year period between 1869 and 1881.[3] Princeton defeated Harvard for the first time.

Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result
November 3 Harvard Princeton, NJ W 1–0  
November 17 Columbia Princeton, NJ W 4–0  
December 8 vs. Yale Hoboken, NJ T 0–0  
*Non-conference game.

References

  1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. pp. 105–106. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. 1877 Princeton University football scores and results. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 10, 2013.
  3. Princeton University championships. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 10, 2013.
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