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The 1879 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1879 college football season. They finished with a 4–0–1 record and were retroactively named co-national champions by the Billingsley Report National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis. This season marked the ninth national championship in 11 years and one of 11 in a 13-year period between 1869 and 1881.