1869 Princeton Tigers football team

American college football season August 2023 December 2025 1869 Princeton Tigers football Independent 1–1 None William Stryker Gummere National champion (Billingsley, NCF)Co-national champion (Davis) none The 1869 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey, more commonly known as Princeton College, in the 1869 college football season. The team finished with a 1–1 record and was retroactively named national champions by the Billingsley Report and National Championship Foundation, and as the co-national champions by Parke H. Davis.http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2017/FBS.pdf National Poll Champions National Collegiate Athletic Association 2017 NCAA Division I Football Records 110 December 31, 2017 Princeton's first captain was William S. Gummere, who was 17 during the season.All Time Captains https://www.princetontigersfootball.com/history/all-time-captains/ www.princetontigersfootball.com Princeton University January 2, 2018 On November 6, the team played at Rutgers 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 Football Association 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.All-Time Princeton Results http://goprincetontigers.com/documents/2017/7/7//All_Time_FB_Results.pdf goprincetontigers.com Princeton University January 2, 20181869 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results Sports Reference LLC SR/College Football February 27, 2017 https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/princeton/1869-schedule.html Schedule November 6 3:00 p.m. l y Rutgers College Field New Brunswick, NJ rivalry 4–6 New-Jersey https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98408809/the-new-york-times/ The New York Times New York, New York November 9, 1869 8 March 26, 2022 Newspapers.com November 13 w Rutgers Princeton, NJ 8–0 November 1869 I 8 5 The Foot-Ball Match Princeton vs. Rutgers https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/59711/ The Targum New Brunswick, New Jersey Roster Below is a list of the 24 known players on the 1869 Princeton University football team:David Nathan Biographies of Princeton’s First Football Players https://paw.princeton.edu/article/biographies-princetons-first-football-players Princeton University Charles Scudder “Charlie” Barrett (1850-1925), 1871 George S. Billmeyer (1849-1917), 1871 Homer Davenport “Dutch” Boughner (1848-1938), 1871 William Frazier Henley “Billy” Buck (1849-1890), 1870 Francis Clayton “Frank” Burt (1850-1916), 1871 William Cox “Grandfather” Chambers (1850-1879), 1871 Charles Winters “Charlie” Darst (1849-1900), 1871 Chauncey Mitchell “Chaunce” Field (1850-1895), 1871 William Wetmore “Flag” Flagler (1850-1910), 1871 William Bynum “Tar Heel” Glenn (1847-1892), 1870 William Stryker “Will” Gummere (1852-1933), 1870 James Winthrop “Calf” Hageman (1852-1933) (1852-1924), 1872 Charles Seth “Pipe-Stems” Lane (1848-1916), 1872 William Preston “Bunch” Lane (1851-1938), 1872 (last surviving member of the team) George Williamson “G.” Mann (1853-1925), 1872 Jacob Edwin “Big Mike” Michael (1848-1895), 1871 David “Dave” Mixsell (1849-1913), 1871 Lee Hampton “Honeyman” Nissley (1844-1912), 1870 Hughes “Olly” Oliphant (1850-1920), 1870 Charles Joel “Charlie” Parker (1848-1917), 1870 Jerome Edward “Jerry” Sharp (1852-1928), 1870 Alexander “Van” Van Rensselaer (1850-1933), 1871 John Green “Colonel” Weir (1849-1911), 1871 Thomas Sears “Tom” Young, Jr. (1848-1909), 1871 The 25th player on the team is unknown,https://paw.princeton.edu/article/when-it-all-began-research-sparks-quest-find-princetons-unknown-player When It All Began: Research Sparks Quest To Find Princeton’s Unknown Player David Nathan January 21, 2016 April 27, 2025 but possible candidates include: Robert Agnew (1870); Thomas Bruen Brown (1870); Glynn Brown (1870); James Chambers (1872); Edmund David (1870); Samul Evans Ewing (1872); Thomas Glenn (1871); Arthur Johnson (1872); Arthur Pell (1873); Thomas Swenk (1870); Edward Terbell (1871); Frank A. Ward (1870) See also List of historically significant college football games List of the first college football games in each U.S. state References Princeton Category:Princeton Tigers football seasons Category:College football national champions Category:College soccer national championship–winning seasons (1866–1904) Princeton Tigers football