| Year: | 1877 |
| Team: | Princeton Tigers |
| Sport: | football |
| Conference: | Independent |
| Record: | 2–0–1 |
| Head Coach: | None |
| Captain: | W. Earl Dodge |
| Champion: | National champion (Billingsley) Co-national champion (Davis) |
The 1877 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey, then more commonly known as Princeton College, in the 1877 college football season. The team finished with a 2–0–1 record and was retroactively named national champion by the Billingsley Report and as co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.[1] This season was Princeton's seventh national championship and one of 11 in a 13-year period between 1869 and 1881.[2] Princeton played Harvard for the second time, earning its first victory over the Crimson.[3] The captain of the team was W. Earl Dodge.[4]
Sophomore Woodrow Wilson was elected as Princeton's football director in 1877. Football historian Parke H. Davis credited Wilson with helping to coach the 1877 team.[5]