1884 Princeton Tigers football team

1884 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Billingsley)
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–0–1
Head coach
  • None
CaptainClinton N. Bird
Seasons
← 1883
1885 →
1884 college football records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton     9 0 1
Yale     8 0 1
Michigan     2 0 0
Williams     2 0 0
Navy     1 0 0
Wabash     1 0 0
Penn     5 1 1
Fordham     5 1 0
Harvard     7 4 0
Wesleyan     3 2 0
Butler     1 1 0
Columbia     1 1 0
Rutgers     3 4 0
Stevens     4 5 0
Dartmouth     1 2 1
Tufts     2 4 1
Massachusetts     1 2 0
Lafayette     2 5 0
Johns Hopkins     1 3 0
Albion     0 1 0
CCNY     0 1 0
DePauw     0 1 0
Olivet     0 2 0
Amherst     0 3 0
Lehigh     0 4 0

The 1884 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey, then more commonly known as Princeton College, in the 1884 college football season. The Tigers finished with a 9–0–1 record and were retroactively named national champions by the Billingsley Report and co-champions by Parke H. Davis.[1][2] This season marked Princeton's 12th football national championship.[3] Clinton N. Bird was the team captain.[4]

  1. ^ "National Poll Champions" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. National Collegiate Athletic Association. 2017. p. 110. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 20, 2018. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  2. ^ "1884 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on February 27, 2017. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  3. ^ "Championships - Tigers Football". princetontigersfootball.com. Princeton University. Archived from the original on March 18, 2018. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  4. ^ "All-Time Princeton Results" (PDF). goprincetontigers.com. Princeton University. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 3, 2018. Retrieved January 2, 2018.