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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