1877 in Sports - American Football

American Football

College championship

  • College football national championship – Princeton Tigers and Yale Bulldogs (shared)

Events

  • Disagreement about the number of players per team prevents Yale Bulldogs from joining Columbia Lions, Harvard Crimson and Princeton Tigers in the Intercollegiate Football Association

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