Princeton defends the belt, 10–3, on the road at Harvard.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 14 days into reign #45, which began with a win over Chicago, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Princeton went on to defend it 3 more times before Notre Dame took it on October 20, 1923, 357 days after the reign began.
For Harvard this was its 25th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 9 times before.
It was the 12th of 13 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 6–4–1; all-time it is 6–6–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton traveled to Harvard on November 11, 1922, in a regular season matchup. Harvard won the game 10-3, but Princeton retained the 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 12603) · This game in the downloadable dataset