1886 Princeton Tigers football team

1886 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Billingsley) Co-national champion (Davis)
Conference	Independent
1886 record	7–0–1
Head coach	No coach
Captain	Henry Savage
Seasons « 1885 1887 »

1886 college football records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					9	–	0	–	1
Princeton			–					7	–	0	–	1
Michigan			–					2	–	0	–	0
Harvard			–					12	–	2	–	0
California			–					6	–	2	–	1
Massachusetts			–					2	–	1	–	0
Navy			–					3	–	3	–	0
Dartmouth			–					2	–	2	–	0
Rutgers			–					1	–	3	–	0
Northwestern			–					0	–	1	–	0
Vermont			–					0	–	1	–	0
Minnesota			–					0	–	2	–	0

The 1886 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1886 college football season. The team finished with a 7–0–1 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis. They outscored their opponents 320 to 27.

On Thanksgiving Day in Princeton, New Jersey, undefeated teams from Yale and Princeton met. The game started late due to the absence of a referee, and heavy rain caused the game to be called on account of darkness with Yale leading 4–0 in the second half. Under the rules of the time, the game was declared "no contest" by the substitute referee, and the final score was declared to be 0–0. After a special meeting of the Intercollegiate Football Association held to review the game, the Association issued a two-part resolution: that (1) Yale should have been acknowledged the winner, but that (2) under their existing rules, the Association did not have the authority to award the game to them.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
October 9	[[{{{school}}}|Stevens]]	Princeton, NJ	W 58–0
October 13	at Stevens	Hoboken, NJ	W 61–6
October 16	at Penn	Philadelphia, PA	W 30–0
October 23	Penn	Princeton, NJ	W 55–9
November 6	at Penn	Philadelphia, PA	W 28–6
November 13	Harvard	Princeton, NJ	W 12–0
November 20	vs. [[{{{school}}}|Wesleyan]]	Hartford, CT	W 76–6
November 25	Yale	Princeton, NJ	T 0–0

References

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