The 1869 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey, more commonly known as

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, in the 1869 college football season. The team finished with a 1–1 record and was retroactively named

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by the

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and

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, and as the co-national champions by Parke H. Davis. Princeton's first captain was William S. Gummere, who was 17 during the season. On November 6, the team played at

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in what has been called the first intercollegiate American football game. Rutgers won the game 6–4, which was played using rules adapted from the

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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.

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Princeton Tigers football seasons College football national champions College soccer national championship-winning seasons (1866–1904)

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