1878 Princeton Tigers football team
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| 1878 Princeton Tigers football | |
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Consensus national champion
Intercollegiate Football Association champion |
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| Conference | Intercollegiate Football Association |
| 1878 record | 6–0 (?–0 IFA) |
| Head coach | No coach |
| Captain | Bland Ballard |
The 1878 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1878 college football season. The team finished with a 6–0 record and was retroactively named national champion by the Billingsley Report, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[1] This season marked the eighth national championship in 10 years, and one of 11 in a 13-year period between 1869 and 1881.[2]
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | ||||||
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| October 19 | Penn | Princeton, NJ | W 2–0 | ||||||
| October 26 | Stevens Tech | Princeton, NJ | W 4–0 | ||||||
| November 2 | Rutgers | Princeton, NJ | W 5–0 | ||||||
| November 9 | at Penn | Philadelphia, PA | W 2–1 | ||||||
| November 16 | Harvard | Princeton, NJ | W 1–0 | ||||||
| November 28 | vs. Yale | Hoboken, NJ | W 1–0 | ||||||
| *Non-conference game. | |||||||||
References
- ↑ 1878 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.
