The 1884 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey, then more commonly known as

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, in the

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. The Tigers finished with a 9–0–1 record and were retroactively named

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by the Billingsley Report and co-champions by Parke H. Davis. This season marked Princeton's 12th football national championship. Clinton N. Bird was the team captain.

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