Rutgers establishes the belt, 6–4, at home over Princeton — the first game to ever have it on the line.
Where this game sits in the lineage
This is where the lineage starts: the first college football game ever played, and the game that established the belt. Rutgers held it for 7 days before Princeton took it, Princeton 8–0 Rutgers.
It was the first of 15 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Princeton leads 14–1. Every meeting →
About this game
In the inaugural game of the College Football Belt on November 6, 1869, Rutgers defeated Princeton 6-4 at home. This victory marked the beginning of the belt's history, with Rutgers claiming it as the first holder.
Written by Claude, strictly from this site’s own record of the game — the score and what it meant for the belt. CFBD doesn’t have a box score for games this old, so nothing here is invented beyond what’s verifiably on file.
Sources Game record: College Football Data (id 1) · This game in the downloadable dataset