Princeton defends the belt, 7–0, at home over Stevens.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 345 days into reign #4, which began with a win over Yale, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Princeton went on to defend it 22 more times before Harvard took it on November 18, 1882, 1,451 days after the reign began.
For Stevens this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 13 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 2nd of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 1–0; all-time Princeton leads 7–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton, the belt holder, defeated Stevens 7-0 on November 8, 1879, in regular season week 5 play. Princeton retained the belt with the victory.
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 102) · This game in the downloadable dataset