1879 Princeton Tigers football team

1879 Princeton Tigers football
Intercollegiate Football Association champion National champion (Billingsley, NCF) Co-national champion (Davis)
Conference	Intercollegiate Football Association
1879 record	4–0–1 (?–? IFA)
Head coach	No coach
Captain	Bland Ballard

1879 college football records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Princeton			–					4	–	0	–	1
Yale			–					3	–	0	–	2
Massachusetts			–					1	–	0	–	0
Michigan			–					1	–	0	–	1
Harvard			–					2	–	1	–	2
Pennsylvania			–					2	–	2	–	0
Navy			–					0	–	0	–	1
McGill			–					0	–	0	–	1
Toronto			–					0	–	0	–	1
Stevens Tech			–					1	–	2	–	5
Rutgers			–					1	–	2	–	3
Amherst			–					0	–	1	–	0
Widener			–					0	–	1	–	0
Racine			–					0	–	1	–	0
Columbia			–					0	–	3	–	2

The 1879 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1879 college football season. The team finished with a 4–0–1 record and was retroactively named national champion by the Billingsley Report and National Championship Foundation and as co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.^[1][2] This season marked the ninth national championship in 11 years, and one of 11 in a 13-year period between 1869 and 1881.^[3]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
October 18	Penn	Princeton, NJ	W 6–0
November 1	Columbia	Princeton, NJ	W 2–0
November 8	Stevens Tech	Princeton, NJ	W 7–0
November 15	Harvard	Princeton, NJ	W 1–0
November 27	vs. Yale	Hoboken, NJ	T 0–0
*Non-conference game.

References

1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. pp. 105–106. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
2. 1879 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.