The 1879 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey, then more commonly known as Princeton College, in the 1879 college football season.

The team finished with a 4–0–1 record and was retroactively named national champion by the Billingsley Report and National Championship Foundation and as co-national champion by Parke H.

[1][2] This season was Princeton's ninth national championship, and one of 11 in a 13-year period between 1869 and 1881.

[3] The team's captain was Bland Ballard.

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