The Princeton-Yale matchup effectively decided the national championship after Princeton defeated Columbia.

Thompson and Camp executed the first "legal" forward pass in football history.

Early in the game, Camp ran for a good gain on a play, however when he was finally tackled, he threw the ball forward to O. D. Thompson, who ran for a touchdown.

Since the rules of football were still unclear in 1876, a coin toss was used by the referee to decide if the play stood.

The win gifted Yale the fictional College Football Macguffin award as Princeton held it previously.