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
RandolphMacon         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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