The 1870 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey, then more commonly known as Princeton College, in the

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. The team finished with a 1–0 record and was retroactively named the national champion by the

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, National Championship Foundation, and

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. The Tigers played

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one time and won 6–2.

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was the team's captain. In 1871, Princeton College only played games versus

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and there are no records of those games. No intercollegiate football games occurred that year. Princeton and

played again in 1872.

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