1877 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1877 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey, then more commonly known as Princeton College, 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.^[1] This season was Princeton's seventh national championship and one of 11 in a 13-year period between 1869 and 1881.^[2] Princeton played Harvard for the second time, earning its first victory over the Crimson.^[3] The captain of the team was W. Earl Dodge.^[4]

1877 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Billingsley) Co-national champion (Davis)
Conference	Independent
Record	2–0–1
Head coach	None
Captain	W. Earl Dodge
Seasons ← 1876 1878 →

1877 college football records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					3	–	0	–	1
Princeton			–					2	–	0	–	1
Amherst			–					1	–	0	–	0
Harvard			–					3	–	1	–	0
Columbia			–					2	–	2	–	0
Rutgers			–					1	–	2	–	0
Stevens			–					1	–	3	–	0
Tufts			–					0	–	3	–	0

Sophomore Woodrow Wilson was elected as Princeton's football director in 1877. Football historian Parke H. Davis credited Wilson with helping to coach the 1877 team.^[5]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
November 3	2:30 p.m.	Harvard	St. George's Cricket Club grounds Hoboken, NJ (rivalry)	W 1–0	1,000	[6][7]
November 17	2:40 p.m.	Columbia	Princeton, NJ	W 4–0		[8]
December 8		vs. Yale	St. George's Cricket Club grounds Hoboken, NJ (rivalry)	T 0–0	2,000–3,000	[9][10]