Princeton defends the belt, 8–0, on the road at Lehigh.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 307 days into reign #12, which began with a win over Yale, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Princeton went on to defend it 5 more times before Pennsylvania took it on November 10, 1894, 345 days after the reign began.
For Lehigh this was its 4th 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 traveled to Lehigh on October 3, 1894, in week 6 of the regular season. Lehigh won the game 8-0. Princeton retained the belt despite the loss.
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 1333) · This game in the downloadable dataset