The 1876 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing
Yale as having been selected
national champions.[1] On November 11, organized intercollegiate football was first played in the state of
Pennsylvania as
Princeton defeated
Penn 6–0 in
Philadelphia.[2] This season was notable in the history of American football as it saw Walter Camp, widely considered to be the "Father" of the sport, participate as a freshman on the Yale team.