| Year: | 1879 |
| Team: | Princeton Tigers |
| Sport: | football |
| Conference: | Independent |
| Record: | 4–0–1 |
| Head Coach: | None |
| Captain: | Bland Ballard |
| Champion: | National champion (Billingsley, NCF) Co-national champion (Davis) |
The 1879 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey, then more commonly known as Princeton College, in the 1879 college football season. The team finished with a 4–0–1 record and was retroactively named national champion by the Billingsley Report and National Championship Foundation and as co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.[1] [2] This season was Princeton's ninth national championship, and one of 11 in a 13-year period between 1869 and 1881.[3] The team's captain was Bland Ballard.[4]