| Year: | 1885 |
| Team: | Princeton Tigers |
| Sport: | football |
| Conference: | Independent |
| Record: | 9–0 |
| Head Coach: | None |
| Captain: | C. M. DeCamp |
| Champion: | National champion |
The 1885 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey, then more commonly known as Princeton College, in the 1885 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0 record and was retroactively named as national champions by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[1] [2] This season marked Princeton's 13th football national championship.[3]
The season was notable for one of the most celebrated football plays of the 19th century—a 90-yard punt return by Henry "Tillie" Lamar in the closing minutes of the game to beat Yale, 6–5, a team Princeton had not defeated since 1878.[4] [5]