1881 Princeton Tigers football team

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.

1881 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Billingsley)
Co-national champion (Parke H. Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–0–2
Head coach
  • None
CaptainP. T. Bryan
1881 college football records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Richmond    2 0 0
Georgetown    1 0 0
Yale    5 0 1
Princeton    7 0 2
Penn State    1 0 0
Columbian University    1 0 1
Dartmouth    1 0 1
Harvard    6 1 1
Massachusetts    2 1 1
Kentucky University    2 1 0
Columbia    3 3 1
Rutgers    2 4 1
Stevens    1 2 1
Kentucky State College    1 2 0
CCNY    1 1 1
Amherst    0 3 2
Lewisburg    0 1 0
MIT    0 1 0
Wesleyan    0 1 0
Randolph–Macon    0 2 0
Michigan    0 3 0
Penn    0 5 0

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.

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