1879 NYU Violets football team

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1879 NYU Violets football
Conference	Independent
Record	0–2–1
Head coach	None
Seasons ← 1876 1882 →

1879 college football records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Princeton		–		4	–	0	–	1
Yale		–		3	–	0	–	2
Massachusetts		–		1	–	0	–	0
Michigan		–		1	–	0	–	1
Haverford		–		1	–	0	–	1
Harvard		–		2	–	1	–	2
Penn		–		2	–	2	–	0
Amherst		–		1	–	1	–	0
Navy		–		0	–	0	–	1
McGill		–		0	–	0	–	1
Toronto		–		0	–	0	–	1
Stevens		–		1	–	2	–	5
Rutgers		–		1	–	2	–	3
Pennsylvania Military		–		0	–	1	–	1
NYU		–		0	–	2	–	1
Racine		–		0	–	1	–	0
Swarthmore		–		0	–	1	–	0
Columbia		–		0	–	3	–	2

The 1879 NYU Violets football team was an American football team that represented New York University in the 1879 college football season. The team played three games, losing to Stevens Institute of Technology twice and tying them once.^[1]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
	Stevens Freshmen		L
	Stevens Freshmen		L
	Stevens Freshmen		T

References

^ "1876 College Football Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

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