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1871 college football season

American college football season

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year	1871
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number_of_teams	0
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regular_season	None
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champions	None
heisman	Not awarded until 1935

The 1871 college football season is the only year since the first season in 1869 in which no games were played.

Princeton did play several games against a Princeton Theological Seminary team in 1871, although the Tigers considered these "practice" (or exhibition) games, and the general convention is not to count these as official games.

Only two college football games had been played in each of the previous seasons (1869 and 1870) by only three teams (, Princeton, and ).

There are accounts of a competitive game played between the University of Virginia and Washington & Lee University in 1871, but no score or statistics are known.

Because no games were played, 1871 is the only year since college football play began in which no college football national champion has been named, retroactively or otherwise.

References

Jimmy Atkinson. (March 13, 2006). "National Champions: 1869-1879". College Football Blog.
Professional Football Researchers Association. "Camp and his Followers: American Football 1876-1889". Professional Football Researchers Association.
[[Tex Noel]], ''Stars of an Earlier Autumn: An Unofficial College Football Records Book'' (iUniverse, 2011), {{ISBN
Mel Smith, [http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv16/CFHSNv16n3e.pdf "We're Not That Kind of School"] {{Webarchive. link. (2011-05-06 , ''College Football Historical Society Newsletter'', May 2003, p. 12-13.)
Ratcliffe, Jerry. (2008). "University of Virginia Football Vault". Whitman Publishing, LLC.

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