Princeton defends the belt, 48–0, at home over Rutgers.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 314 days into reign #12, which began with a win over Yale, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Princeton went on to defend it 4 more times before Pennsylvania took it on November 10, 1894, 345 days after the reign began.
For Rutgers this was its 14th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 13th of 15 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 11–1; all-time Princeton leads 14–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton hosted Rutgers on October 10, 1894, in a week 7 regular season matchup, defeating the visitors 48-0. As the belt holder, Princeton retained the College Football Belt with the victory.
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 1357) · This game in the downloadable dataset