1885 Princeton Tigers football team

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The 1885 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey, then more commonly known as Princeton College, in the 1885 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0 record and was retroactively named as national champions by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[1][2] This season marked Princeton's 13th football national championship.[3]

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Record9–0
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1885 Princeton Tigers football
National champion
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–0
Head coach
  • None
CaptainC. M. DeCamp
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1885 college football records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Princeton â€“ 9–0–0
Michigan â€“ 3–0–0
Colorado College â€“ 1–0–0
Yale â€“ 7–1–0
Cincinnati â€“ 1–0–1
Penn â€“ 8–5–0
Lafayette â€“ 3–2–1
Massachusetts â€“ 3–2–1
Johns Hopkins â€“ 2–2–0
Richmond â€“ 1–1–0
Wesleyan â€“ 3–4–0
Navy â€“ 1–2–0
Lehigh â€“ 1–5–1
Rutgers â€“ 0–1–0
Fordham â€“ 0–3–0
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The season was notable for one of the most celebrated football plays of the 19th century—a 90-yard punt return by Henry "Tillie" Lamar in the closing minutes of the game to beat Yale, 6–5, a team Princeton had not defeated since 1878.[4][5]

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 3at StevensHoboken, NJW 94–0
October 14StevensPrinceton, NJW 76–0
October 243:24 p.m.at PennW 72–10900[6]
October 31PennPrinceton, NJW 80–10
November 7at Columbia Law SchoolNew York, NYW 64–0
November 11Johns HopkinsPrinceton, NJW 10–0
November 14WesleyanPrinceton, NJW 76–0
November 212:30 p.m.at YaleW 6–55,000[7][8]
November 26at PennPhiladelphia, PAW 76–10
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