1881 Princeton Tigers football team

1881 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Billingsley)
Co-national champion (Parke H. Davis)
Conference Intercollegiate Football Association
1881 record 7–0–2 (?–? IFA)
Head coach No coach
Captain P. T. Bryan
1881 college football records
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Yale   –       5 – 0 – 1
Princeton   –       7 – 0 – 2
Richmond   –       2 – 0 – 0
Dartmouth   –       1 – 0 – 1
Penn State   –       1 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –       6 – 1 – 1
Massachusetts   –       2 – 1 – 1
Kentucky U.   –       2 – 1 – 0
Columbia   –       3 – 3 – 1
Rutgers   –       2 – 4 – 1
Stevens Tech   –       1 – 2 – 1
Kentucky State   –       1 – 2 – 0
CCNY   –       0 – 1 – 0
Lewisburg   –       0 – 1 – 0
MIT   –       0 – 1 – 0
Wesleyan   –       0 – 1 – 0
Randolph–Macon   –       0 – 2 – 0
Amherst   –       0 – 3 – 1
Michigan   –       0 – 3 – 0
Penn   –       0 – 5 – 0

The 1881 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey in the 1881 college football season. The team finished with a 7–0–2 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 eleventh national championship in a 13-year period between 1869 and 1881.[3]

Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result
October 15 at Rutgers New Brunswick, NJ W 5–0  
October 22 Stevens Tech Princeton, NJ W 7–0  
October 29 at Penn Philadelphia, PA W 7–0  
November 4 Michigan Princeton, NJ W 1–0  
November 5 Penn Princeton, NJ W 4–0  
November 10 Rutgers Princeton, NJ W 1–0  
November 12 at Columbia New York, NY W 1–0  
November 19 Harvard Princeton, NJ T 0–0  
November 24 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. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. ↑ 1881 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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