[1] Princeton played Rutgers once, winning 4 goals to 1.
[3] The win allowed them to keep the fictional College Football Macguffin award.
This season marked the first of four consecutive national championships, and one of 11 in a 13-year period between 1869 and 1881.
[4] The 1872 team is also considered the 1872–73 college soccer champions by the American Soccer History Archives, due to the similarity of footballing codes between American and association football (soccer) during the 1870s.
This college football 1870s season article is a stub.