1881 Princeton Tigers football team
Date Opponent Site Result
October 15 Rutgers Princeton , NJ ( rivalry ) W 3-0
October 22 Stevens Tech Princeton , NJ W 7-0
October 29 at Penn Philadelphia , PA ( rivalry ) W 7-0
November 4 Michigan Princeton , NJ W 1-0
November 5 Penn Princeton , NJ W 4-0
November 10 at Rutgers New Brunswick , NJ W 1-0
November 12 Columbia Princeton , NJ W 1-0
November 19 vs. Harvard New York , NY ( rivalry ) T 0-0
November 24 vs. Yale New York , NY ( rivalry ) T 0-0
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The 1881 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey, then more commonly known as Princeton College, in the 1881 college football season. The team finished with a 7-0-2 record and was retroactively named national champion by the Billingsley Report and as co-national champion by Parke H. Davis. This season marked Princeton's 11th national championship in a 13-year period between 1869 and 1881. P. T. Bryan was the captain of the team. No goals were scored against the Tigers in 1881 and the season ended as it had for the fourth time in five years; a 0-0 tie against Yale in or near New York.