1876 Princeton Tigers football team

1876 Princeton Tigers football
Conference Independent
1876 record 3–2
Head coach No coach
Captain A. J. McCosh (fall)
B. Nicoll (spring)
1876 college football records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Yale   –    3 –0 –0
Rutgers   –    1 –0 –0
Harvard   –    3 –1 –0
Princeton   –    3 –2 –0
Stevens Tech   –    2 –2 –1
Penn   –    1 –2 –0
Canada All-Stars   –    0 –1 –0
McGill   –    0 –1 –0
NYU   –    0 –1 –0
Philadelphia All-Stars   –    0 –1 –0
Columbia   –    1 –3 –0

The 1876 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey, more commonly known as Princeton College, in the 1876 college football season. The team finished with a 3–2 record and outscored its opponents, 15–3, but lost to both Harvard and Yale.[1] 1876 was the only year between 1872 and 1881 that Princeton did not claim at least a share of the national championship assigned retroactively by either the Billingsley Report, the National Championship Foundation, or Parke H. Davis.[2] The captain of the team was A. J. McCosh in the fall and B. Nicoll in the spring of 1877.[3][4]

Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result
November 1 at Penn Philadelphia, PA (rivalry) W 6–0  
November 11 at Columbia New York, NY W 3–0  
November 25 Penn Princeton, NJ W 6–0  
November 30 vs. Yale Hoboken, NJ (rivalry) L 0–2  
March 3, 1877 at Harvard Cambridge, MA (rivalry) L 0–1  

See also

References

  1. ↑ "1876 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Championships - Tigers Football". princetontigersfootball.com. Princeton University. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  3. ↑ "All-Time Princeton Results" (PDF). goprincetontigers.com. Princeton University. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  4. ↑ "All Time Captains". www.princetontigersfootball.com. Princeton University. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
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