However, Princeton was retroactively named as the national champion by one selector, the Houlgate System.
Most of the other selectors chose Yale (16–0 record) as the national champion for 1894.
[2] Yale also defeated Princeton in head-to-head competition.
Two Princeton players, tackle Langdon Lea and guard Art Wheeler, were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1894 All-America team.
[3] Lea and Wheeler were both later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.