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1879 Princeton Tigers football team

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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
Haverford     1 0 1
Harvard     2 1 2
Penn     2 2 0
Amherst     1 1 0
Navy     0 0 1
McGill     0 0 1
Toronto     0 0 1
Stevens     1 2 5
Rutgers     1 2 3
Pennsylvania Military     0 1 1
NYU     0 2 1
Racine     0 1 0
Swarthmore     0 1 0
Columbia     0 3 2

The 1879 New Jersey Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey 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

October 18PennPrinceton, NJW 6–0 November 1ColumbiaPrinceton, NJW 2–0 November 8Stevens TechPrinceton, NJW 7–0 November 15HarvardPrinceton, NJW 1–0 November 27vs. YaleHoboken, NJT 0–0

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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.