American Football
College championship
- College football national championship – Princeton Tigers and Yale Bulldogs (shared)
Events
- Michigan Wolverines is the first "western" team to travel east and play against the established teams at Harvard Crimson, Yale Bulldogs and Princeton Tigers.
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