1884 Princeton Tigers football team

1884 Princeton Tigers football
National champion (Billingsley)
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–0–1
Head coach
  • None
CaptainClinton N. Bird
1884 college football records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Princeton    9 0 1
Yale    8 0 1
Michigan    2 0 0
Williams    2 0 0
Navy    1 0 0
Wabash    1 0 0
Penn    5 1 1
Fordham    5 1 0
Harvard    7 4 0
Wesleyan    3 2 0
Butler    1 1 0
Columbia    1 1 0
Rutgers    3 4 0
Stevens    4 5 0
Dartmouth    1 2 1
Tufts    2 4 1
Massachusetts    1 2 0
Lafayette    2 5 0
Johns Hopkins    1 3 0
Albion    0 1 0
CCNY    0 1 0
Denver    0 1 0
DePauw    0 1 0
Olivet    0 2 0
Amherst    0 3 0
Lehigh    0 4 0

The 1884 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey, then more commonly known as Princeton College, in the 1884 college football season. The Tigers finished with a 9–0–1 record and were retroactively named national champions 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.