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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