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| Consensus national champion | |||
| Conference | Independent | ||
| 1885 record | 9–0 | ||
| Head coach | No coach | ||
| Captain | C. M. DeCamp | ||
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| Princeton | – | 9 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Michigan | – | 3 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Colorado College | – | 1 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cincinnati | – | 1 | – | 0 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yale | – | 7 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Massachusetts | – | 3 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Richmond | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Navy | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rutgers | – | 0 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 1885 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey, then more commonly known as Princeton College, in the 1885 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0 record and was retroactively named as consensus national champions by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[1][2] This season marked Princeton's 13th football national championship.[3]
The season was notable for one of the most celebrated football plays of the 19th century - a 90-yard punt return by Henry "Tillie" Lamar in the closing minutes of the game to beat Yale 6–5, a team Princeton had not defeated since 1878.[4][5]
Schedule[]
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result |
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| October 3 | at [[{{{school}}}|Stevens]] | Hoboken, NJ | W 94–0 |
| October 14 | Stevens | Princeton, NJ | W 76–0 |
| October 24 | at Penn | Philadelphia, PA (rivalry) | W 57–0 |
| October 31 | Penn | Princeton, NJ | W 80–10 |
| November 7 | at Columbia Law School | New York, NY | W 64–0 |
| November 11 | Johns Hopkins | Princeton, NJ | W 10–0 |
| November 14 | Wesleyan | Princeton, NJ | W 76–0 |
| November 21 | at Yale | W 6–5 | |
| November 26 | at Penn | Philadelphia, PA | W 76–10 |
References[]
- ↑ "National Poll Champions". NCAA Division I Football Records. National Collegiate Athletic Association. 2017. p. 110. http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2017/FBS.pdf. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
- ↑ "1885 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/princeton/1885-schedule.html. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
- ↑ "Championships - Tigers Football". Princeton University. http://www.princetontigersfootball.com/championships/. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
- ↑ "All-Time Princeton Results". Princeton University. http://goprincetontigers.com/documents/2017/7/7//All_Time_FB_Results.pdf. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
- ↑ "Sporting Comment". The Auburn Citizen. November 21, 1911. http://fultonhistory.com/newspaper%202/Auburn%20NY%20Citizen/Auburn%20NY%20Citizen%201912.pdf/Newspaper%20Auburn%20NY%20Citizen%201912%20%281327%29.PDF.
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