Princeton defends the belt, 40–0, at home over Lafayette.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 303 days into reign #12, which began with a win over Yale, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Princeton went on to defend it 6 more times before Pennsylvania took it on November 10, 1894, 345 days after the reign began.
For Lafayette this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 3rd of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 2–0; all-time Princeton leads 5–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton defended the College Football Belt on September 29, 1894, defeating visiting Lafayette 40-0. The belt remained with Princeton.
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 1326) · This game in the downloadable dataset