1870 in Sports - American Football

American Football

College championship

  • College football national championship – Princeton Tigers

Events

  • Columbia Lions joins the college football circuit and loses to Rutgers Scarlet Knights in its only game. Princeton Tigers beats Rutgers. Columbia doesn't play Princeton.

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