1873 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1873 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey, then more commonly known as Princeton College, in the 1873 college football season. The team played Yale for the first time and won 3–0, finished with a 1–0 record, and was retroactively named national champion by the Billingsley Report, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.^[1][2] The team captain was Cyrus O. Dershimer.^[3] The win allowed them to keep the fictional College Football Macguffin award.

1873 Princeton Tigers football
National champion
Conference	Independent
Record	1–0
Head coach	None
Captain	Cyrus O. Dershimer
Seasons ← 1872 1874 →

1873 college football records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
Princeton			–					1	–	0	–	0
Harvard			–					1	–	0	–	1
Washington and Lee			–					4	–	0	–	0
Stevens			–					3	–	1	–	0
Yale			–					2	–	1	–	0
Columbia			–					2	–	1	–	0
Rutgers			–					1	–	2	–	0
McGill			–					0	–	1	–	1
Eton			–					0	–	1	–	0
CCNY			–					0	–	1	–	0
New Jersey AC			–					0	–	1	–	0
NYU			–					0	–	1	–	0
Princeton Seminary			–					0	–	1	–	0
VMI			–					0	–	1	–	0

This season marked the second of four consecutive national championships, and one of 11 in a 13-year period between 1869 and 1881.^[4]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
November 15	Yale	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 3–0	[5]