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 | |
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| Conference | Independent |
| Record | 3–2 |
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| Captain | A. J. McCosh (fall) B. Nicoll (spring) |
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| Team | W | 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| CCNY | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Penn | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Columbia | – | 1 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Canada All-Stars | – | 0 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| McGill | – | 0 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Northwestern | – | 0 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Philadelphia All-Stars | – | 0 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NYU | – | 0 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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| November 11 | at Penn | Philadelphia, PA (rivalry) | W 6–0 | [5] | |
| November 18 | at Columbia |
| W 3–0 | [6][7] | |
| November 25 | Penn | Princeton, NJ | W 6–0 | [8] | |
| November 30 | vs. Yale |
| L 0–2 | >1,000 | [9] |
| April 28, 1877 | at Harvard | Cambridge, MA (rivalry) | L 0–1 | 2,500 | [10] |
References
- "1876 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
- "Championships - Tigers Football". princetontigersfootball.com. Princeton University. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
- "All-Time Princeton Results" (PDF). goprincetontigers.com. Princeton University. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
- "All Time Captains". www.princetontigersfootball.com. Princeton University. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
- "Princeton College And The University Of Pennsylvania—Princeton Wins In Six Straight Goals". New York Herald. New York, New York. November 12, 1876. p. 12. Retrieved March 27, 2022 – via Newspapers.com
. - "Intercollegiate Foot-ball. Princeton Defeats Columbia In Three Straight Games—Three Of The Players Receive Injuries". The New York Times. New York, New York. November 19, 1876. p. 5. Retrieved March 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
- "Football.—Interesting And Exciting Contest Between Princeton And Columbia—Princeton The Winners". New York Herald. New York, New York. November 19, 1876. p. 10. Retrieved March 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
- "New Jersey Items". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 27, 1876. p. 3. Retrieved March 27, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
- "Foot-Ball—From the New York Herald, Dec. 1st". Buffalo Commercial Advisor. Buffalo, New York. December 2, 1872. p. 2. Retrieved March 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
- "General Notes". New-York Tribune. New York, New York. April 30, 1877. p. 4. Retrieved March 27, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
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