1880 Princeton Tigers football team

1880 Princeton Tigers football
Co-Intercollegiate Football Association champion Co-national champion (NCF, Davis)
Conference	Intercollegiate Football Association
1880 record	4–0–1 (?–? IFA)
Head coach	No coach
Captain	Francis Loney

1880 college football records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Princeton			–					4	–	0	–	1
Yale			–					4	–	0	–	1
Kentucky U.			–					2	–	0	–	0
Michigan			–					1	–	0	–	0
Penn			–					3	–	2	–	0
Harvard			–					2	–	2	–	2
Rutgers			–					2	–	2	–	0
Columbia			–					1	–	2	–	0
Stevens Tech			–					1	–	5	–	0
Amherst			–					0	–	1	–	1
Massachusetts			–					0	–	1	–	1
Brown			–					0	–	1	–	0
CCNY			–					0	–	1	–	0
Toronto			–					0	–	1	–	0
Centre			–					0	–	2	–	0

The 1880 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey in the 1880 college football season. The team finished with a 4–0–1 record and was retroactively named co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis.^[1][2] This season marked the tenth national championship in 12 years, and one of 11 in a 13-year period between 1869 and 1881.^[3]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
October 23	Stevens Tech	Princeton, NJ	W 6–0
November 2	Rutgers	Princeton, NJ	W 8–0
November 6	Penn	Princeton, NJ	W 1–0
November 13	Harvard	Princeton, NJ	W 2–1
November 25	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. pp. 105–106. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
2. 1880 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.