The 1874 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey, then more commonly known as

Princeton College Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine ...

, in the

1874 college football season The 1874 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Princeton, Harvard, and Yale as having been selected national champions National champions are corporations which a ...

. The team beat Columbia and Rutgers by identical 6–0 scores, finished with a 2–0 record, and was retroactively named national champion by the

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and as co-national champion by

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. Isaac H. Lionberger was the team's captain. This season marked the third of four consecutive national championships, and one of 11 in a 13-year period between

1869 Events January–March * January 3 – Abdur Rahman Khan is defeated at Tinah Khan, and exiled from Afghanistan. * January 5 – Scotland's oldest professional football team, Kilmarnock F.C., is founded. * January 20 – E ...

and

1881 Events January–March * January 1– 24 – Siege of Geok Tepe: Russian troops under General Mikhail Skobelev defeat the Turkomans. * January 13 – War of the Pacific – Battle of San Juan and Chorrillos: The C ...

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Princeton Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine ...

Princeton Tigers football seasons College football national champions College football undefeated seasons

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