| 1869Princeton Tigers football | |
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| Conference | Independent |
| Record | 1–1 |
| Head coach |
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| Captain | William Stryker Gummere |
Seasons 1870 → | |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Princeton | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rutgers | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The1869 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey, more commonly known asPrinceton College, in the1869 college football season. The team finished with a 1–1 record and was retroactively namednational champions by theBillingsley Report andNational Championship Foundation, and as the co-national champions byParke H. Davis.[1] Princeton's first captain wasWilliam S. Gummere, who was 17 during the season.[2]
On November 6, the team played atRutgers in what has been called thefirst intercollegiate American football game. Rutgers won the game 6–4, which was played using rules adapted from theFootball Association rules of the time, which more closely resembled soccer than current American football. Rutgers traveled to Princeton the next week to play under Princeton's rules, the Tigers won 8–0.[3][4]
| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | Result | Source |
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| November 6 | 3:00 p.m. | atRutgers |
| L4–6 | [5][6] |
| November 13 | Rutgers | Princeton, NJ | W 8–0 | [5] | |
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Below is a list of the 24 known players on the 1869 Princeton University football team:[7]
The 25th player on the team is unknown,[8] but possible candidates include: Robert Agnew (1870); Thomas Bruen Brown (1870); Glynn Brown (1870); James Chambers (1872); Edmund David (1870); Samul Evans Ewing (1872); Thomas Glenn (1871); Arthur Johnson (1872); Arthur Pell (1873); Thomas Swenk (1870); Edward Terbell (1871); Frank A. Ward (1870)
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