Princeton defends the belt, 3–0, at home over Rutgers.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 1,052 days into reign #4, which began with a win over Yale, with 10 defenses already behind it; this was its 11th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 14 more times before Harvard took it on November 18, 1882, 1,451 days after the reign began.
For Rutgers this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 7th of 15 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 5–1; all-time Princeton leads 14–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton defended the belt on October 15, 1881, defeating visiting Rutgers 3-0 in a regular season matchup. The victory allowed Princeton to retain the lineal championship.
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 136) · This game in the downloadable dataset