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1877 Princeton Tigers football team

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1877 record
  
2–0–1 (?–? IFA)

Captain
  
Earl Dodge

Head coach
  
No coach

1877 Princeton Tigers football team

Conference
  
Intercollegiate Football Association

The 1877 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey in the 1877 college football season. The team finished with a 2–0–1 record and was retroactively named national champion by the Billingsley Report and as co-national champion by Parke H. Davis. This season marked the seventh national championship in nine years, and one of 11 in a 13-year period between 1869 and 1881. Princeton defeated Harvard for the first time.

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1877 Princeton Tigers football team Wikipedia