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

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
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.

1878 Princeton Tigers football—national champions

Bland Ballard Earl Dodge Francis Loney Ted McNair

Princeton Tigers football

Venues	University Field (1876–1913) Palmer Stadium (1914–1996) Princeton University Stadium (1997–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Legacy Bowl Harvard Penn Yale

Culture & lore	First American football game (painting) 1922 Chicago game The Tiger "Princeton Cannon Song" Winged football helmet

People	Head coaches NFL draftees

Seasons	1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

National championship seasons in bold

Pre-AP Poll college football national champions

1869–1879	1869: Princeton 1870: Princeton 1872: Princeton 1873: Princeton 1874: Princeton / Yale 1875: Harvard / Princeton 1876: Yale 1877: Princeton / Yale 1878: Princeton 1879: Princeton

1880s	1880: Princeton / Yale 1881: Princeton / Yale 1882: Yale 1883: Yale 1884: Princeton / Yale 1885: Princeton 1886: Princeton / Yale 1887: Yale 1888: Yale 1889: Princeton

1890s	1890: Harvard 1891: Yale 1892: Yale 1893: Princeton 1894: Yale 1895: Penn 1896: Lafayette / Princeton 1897: Penn 1898: Harvard 1899: Harvard / Princeton

1900s	1900: Yale 1901: Michigan 1902: Michigan 1903: Princeton 1904: Penn 1905: Chicago / Yale 1906: Princeton / Yale 1907: Yale 1908: Penn 1909: Yale

1910s	1910: Harvard 1911: Princeton 1912: Harvard 1913: Chicago / Harvard 1914: Army / Illinois 1915: Cornell 1916: Pittsburgh 1917: Georgia Tech 1918: Michigan / Pittsburgh 1919: Harvard / Illinois

1920s	1920: California 1921: California / Cornell 1922: California / Cornell / Princeton 1923: Illinois / Michigan 1924: Notre Dame 1925: Alabama / Dartmouth 1926: Alabama / Stanford 1927: Illinois / Georgia 1928: Georgia Tech / USC 1929: Notre Dame / USC

1930s	1930: Alabama / Notre Dame 1931: USC 1932: Michigan / USC 1933: Michigan 1934: Alabama / Minnesota 1935: Minnesota / SMU

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