Princeton defends the belt, 8–0, at home over Rutgers.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 705 days into reign #4, which began with a win over Yale, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 17 more times before Harvard took it on November 18, 1882, 1,451 days after the reign began.
For Rutgers this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 6th of 15 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 4–1; all-time Princeton leads 14–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton hosted Rutgers on November 2, 1880, in a regular season matchup. Princeton won 8-0 and retained the College Football Belt as the defending champion.
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 122) · This game in the downloadable dataset