Princeton defends the belt, 2–1, at home over Harvard.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 716 days into reign #4, which began with a win over Yale, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 16 more times before Harvard took it on November 18, 1882, 1,451 days after the reign began.
For Harvard this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 13 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 1–0; all-time it is 6–6–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton defended the College Football Belt on November 13, 1880, defeating visiting Harvard 2-1. The victory allowed Princeton to retain the belt.
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 129) · This game in the downloadable dataset