1878 college football season

The 1878 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Princeton as having been selected national champions.[1]

1878 college football season
1878 Penn Quakers
Total No. of teams11
Regular seasonOctober 19 to November 28
Champion(s)Princeton
football seasons

Conference and program changes
School1877 Conference1878 Conference
Brown BearsProgram EstablishedIndependent

Conference standings
1878 college football records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Princeton   –  6 –0 –0
Yale   –  4 –1 –1
Columbia   –  0 –0 –1
CCNY   –  1 –1 –0
Stevens   –  1 –1 –2
Harvard   –  1 –2 –0
Penn   –  1 –2 –1
Rutgers   –  1 –2 –1
Amherst   –  1 –3 –0
Brown   –  0 –1 –0
Swarthmore   –  0 –1 –0

References
  1. Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
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