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The 1872 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1872 college football season. They finished with a 1–0 record and were retroactively named co-national champions by the Billingsley Report National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis. They played Rutgers one time and won 4–1 (scoring then differed than today’s system). This season marked the first of four consecutive national championships and one of 11 in a 13-year period between 1869 and 1881.