1880 Princeton Tigers football team

1880 Princeton Tigers football
Co-Intercollegiate Football Association champion
Co-national champion (NCF, Davis)
Conference Intercollegiate Football Association
1880 record 4–0–1 (?–? IFA)
Head coach No coach
Captain Francis Loney
1880 college football records
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Princeton   –       4 – 0 – 1
Yale   –       4 – 0 – 1
Kentucky U.   –       2 – 0 – 0
Michigan   –       1 – 0 – 0
Penn   –       3 – 2 – 0
Harvard   –       2 – 2 – 2
Rutgers   –       2 – 2 – 0
Columbia   –       1 – 2 – 0
Stevens Tech   –       1 – 5 – 0
Amherst   –       0 – 1 – 1
Massachusetts   –       0 – 1 – 1
Brown   –       0 – 1 – 0
CCNY   –       0 – 1 – 0
Toronto   –       0 – 1 – 0
Centre   –       0 – 2 – 0

The 1880 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey in the 1880 college football season. The team finished with a 4–0–1 record and was retroactively named co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis.[1][2] This season marked the tenth national championship in 12 years, and one of 11 in a 13-year period between 1869 and 1881.[3]

Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result
October 23 Stevens Tech Princeton, NJ W 6–0  
November 2 Rutgers Princeton, NJ W 8–0  
November 6 Penn Princeton, NJ W 1–0  
November 13 Harvard Princeton, NJ W 2–1  
November 25 vs. Yale New York, NY 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. ↑ 1880 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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