1878 Princeton Tigers football team

1878 Princeton Tigers football
Consensus national champion
Intercollegiate Football Association champion
Conference Intercollegiate Football Association
1878 record 6–0 (?–0 IFA)
Head coach No coach
Captain Bland Ballard
1878 college football records
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Princeton         6 0 0
Yale         4 1 1
Columbia         0 0 1
Stevens Tech         1 1 2
Harvard         1 2 0
Penn         1 2 1
Rutgers         1 2 1
Amherst         1 3 0
Brown         0 1 0
Swarthmore         0 1 0

The 1878 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey 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
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

  1. 1878 Princeton University football scores and results. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 10, 2013.
  2. Princeton University championships. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 10, 2013.
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