[1] This season was Princeton's seventh national championship and one of 11 in a 13-year period between 1869 and 1881.

[2] Princeton played Harvard for the second time, earning its first victory over the Crimson.

[4] Sophomore Woodrow Wilson was elected as Princeton's football director in 1877.

Football historian Parke H. Davis credited Wilson with helping to coach the 1877 team.

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