1879 Princeton Tigers football team

1879 Princeton Tigers football
Intercollegiate Football Association champion
National champion (Billingsley, NCF)
Co-national champion (Davis)
Conference Intercollegiate Football Association
1879 record 4–0–1 (?–? IFA)
Head coach No coach
Captain Bland Ballard
1879 college football records
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Princeton         4 0 1
Yale         3 0 2
Massachusetts         1 0 0
Michigan         1 0 1
Harvard         2 1 2
Penn         2 2 0
Amherst         1 1 0
Navy         0 0 1
McGill         0 0 1
Toronto         0 0 1
Stevens Tech         1 2 5
Rutgers         1 2 3
PA Military         0 1 1
Racine         0 1 0
Columbia         0 3 2
Swarthmore         0 0 0
  • † Result of Swarthmore's lone game is unknown

The 1879 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey in the 1879 college football season. The team finished with a 4–0–1 record and was retroactively named national champion by the Billingsley Report and National Championship Foundation and as co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.[1][2] This season marked the ninth national championship in 11 years, and one of 11 in a 13-year period between 1869 and 1881.[3]

Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result
October 18 Penn Princeton, NJ W 6–0  
November 1 Columbia Princeton, NJ W 2–0  
November 8 Stevens Tech Princeton, NJ W 7–0  
November 15 Harvard Princeton, NJ W 1–0  
November 27 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. 1879 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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