1876 Princeton Tigers football team

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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]

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1876 Princeton Tigers football
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1876 college football records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale â€“ 3–0–0
Rutgers â€“ 1–0–0
Harvard â€“ 3–1–0
Princeton â€“ 3–2–0
Stevens â€“ 2–2–0
CCNY â€“ 1–1–0
Penn â€“ 1–2–0
Columbia â€“ 1–3–0
Canada All-Stars â€“ 0–1–0
McGill â€“ 0–1–0
Northwestern â€“ 0–1–0
Philadelphia All-Stars â€“ 0–1–0
NYU â€“ 0–2–0
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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
November 11at PennPhiladelphia, PA (rivalry)W 6–0[5]
November 18at Columbia
W 3–0[6][7]
November 25PennPrinceton, NJW 6–0[8]
November 30vs. Yale
L 0–2>1,000[9]
April 28, 1877at HarvardCambridge, MA (rivalry)L 0–12,500[10]
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