1872 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1872 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey, then more commonly known as Princeton College, in the 1872 college football season. The team finished with a 1–0 record and was retroactively named the national champion by the Billingsley Report and National Championship Foundation and as the national co-champion by Parke H. Davis.^[1] Princeton played Rutgers once, winning 4 goals to 1.^[2] David T. Marvel was the team captain.^[3]

This season marked the first of four consecutive national championships, and one of 11 in a 13-year period between 1869 and 1881.^[4]