1876 Princeton Tigers football team

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1876 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
1876 record3–2
Head coach
  • None
CaptainA. J. McCosh (fall)
B. Nicoll (spring)
Seasons
← 1875
1877 →
1876 college football records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale     3 0 0
Rutgers     1 0 0
Harvard     3 1 0
Princeton     3 2 0
Stevens     2 2 0
CCNY     1 1 0
Penn     1 2 0
Columbia     1 3 0
Canada All-Stars     0 1 0
    0 1 0
Northwestern     0 1 0
Philadelphia All-Stars     0 1 0
NYU     0 2 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[]

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
November 11at PennPhiladelphia, PA (rivalry)W 6–0
November 18at ColumbiaHoboken, NJW 3–0[5]
November 25PennPrinceton, NJW 6–0
November 30vs. YaleHoboken, NJ (rivalry)L 0–2
March 3, 1877at HarvardCambridge, MA (rivalry)L 0–1

See also[]

  • List of the first college football game in each US state

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.
  5. ^ "INTERCOLLEGIATE FOOT-BALL.; PRINCETON DEFEATS COLUMBIA IN THREE STRAIGHT GAMES THREE OF THE PLAYERS RECEIVE INJURIES". The New York Times. November 19, 1876. p. 5. Retrieved August 2, 2020 – via nytimes.com.
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