1877 Princeton Tigers football team
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Intercollegiate Football Association champion
National champion (Billingsley) Co-national champion (Davis) |
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| Conference | Intercollegiate Football Association |
| 1877 record | 2–0–1 (?–? IFA) |
| Head coach | No coach |
| Captain | Earl Dodge |
The 1877 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University 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 | ||||||
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| 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
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- ↑ 1877 Princeton University football scores and results. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 10, 2013.
- ↑ Princeton University championships. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 10, 2013.
