[4] No goals were scored against the Tigers in 1881 and the season ended as it had for the fourth time in five years; a 0–0 tie against Yale in or near New York.
[5] The Michigan Wolverines toured the east in 1881, playing the first games between western and eastern teams.
[12] Michigan played at Harvard on October 31 and at Yale on November 2, 1881, losing both games.
Michigan's captain and quarterback Walter S. Horton did not want to accept, but the team over-ruled him.
[14] Michigan forward Fred Townsend wrote about the game in 1901, reporting that Princeton scored a goal in the first half on a long kick aided by the wind.