1876 Princeton Tigers football team

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]

1876 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
1876 record3–2
Head coachNone
CaptainA. 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      2 2 0
Penn      1 2 0
Columbia      1 3 0
Canada All-Stars      0 1 0
McGill      0 1 0
NYU      0 1 0
Philadelphia All-Stars      0 1 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
November 1at 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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