The team beat Columbia and Rutgers by identical 6–0 scores, finished with a 2–0 record, and was retroactively named national champion by the Billingsley Report and as co-national champion by Parke H.
[1][2] Isaac H. Lionberger was the team's captain.
[3] The win allowed them to keep the fictional College Football Macguffin award.
This season marked the third of four consecutive national championships, and one of 11 in a 13-year period between 1869 and 1881.
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