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1877 Princeton Tigers football team

1877 Princeton Tigers football
Princeton Tigers football team (1877).jpg
Intercollegiate Football Association champion
National champion (Billingsley)
Co-national champion (Davis)
Conference Intercollegiate Football Association
1877 record 2–0–1 (?–? IFA)
Head coach No coach
Captain Earl Dodge
Seasons
« 1876 1878 »
1877 college football records
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Yale         3 0 1
Princeton         2 0 1
Amherst         1 0 0
Harvard         3 1 0
Columbia         1 2 0
Rutgers         1 2 0
Stevens Tech         1 3 0
Tufts         0 3 0

The 1877 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey in the 1877 college football season. The team finished with a 2–0–1 record and was retroactively named national champion by the Billingsley Report and as co-national champion by Parke H. Davis. This season marked the seventh national championship in nine years, and one of 11 in a 13-year period between 1869 and 1881. Princeton defeated Harvard for the first time.


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