1872 Princeton Tigers football team
| 1872 Princeton Tigers football | |
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| Conference | Independent |
| 1872 record | 1–0 |
| Head coach | No coach |
| 1872 college football records | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Princeton | – | 1 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yale | – | 1 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rutgers | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Columbia | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stevens Tech | – | 0 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 1872 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey in the 1872 college football season. The team finished with a 1–0 record and was retroactively named the national champions by the Billingsley Report and National Championship Foundation and as the national co-champion by Parke H. Davis.[1] They played Rutgers one time and won 4–1 (scoring then differed than today's system).[2] This season marked the first of four consecutive national championships, and one of 11 in a 13-year period between 1869 and 1881.[3]
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | ||||||
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| November 23 | Rutgers* | Princeton, NJ | W 4–1 | ||||||
| *Non-conference game. | |||||||||
References
- ↑ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
- ↑ 1872 Princeton University football scores and results. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 9, 2013.
- ↑ Princeton University championships. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 9, 2013.
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