1871 college football season | ||
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Regular season | None | |
Champion(s) | None | |
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The 1871 college football season is the only year since the first season in 1869 in which no games were played. [1] [2]
Princeton did play several games against a Princeton Theological Seminary team in 1871, although the Tigers considered these "practice" (or exhibition) games, and the general convention is not to count these as official games. [3] [4]
Only two college football games had been played in each of the previous seasons (1869 and 1870) by only three teams ( Rutgers, Princeton, and Columbia).
Because no games were played, 1871 is the only year since college football play began in which no college football national champion has been named, retroactively or otherwise.