Princeton defends the belt, 12–0, at home over Virginia.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 317 days into reign #12, which began with a win over Yale, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 3 more times before Pennsylvania took it on November 10, 1894, 345 days after the reign began.
For Virginia this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 1–0; all-time Princeton leads 2–0.
About this game
Princeton defeated Virginia 12-0 on October 13, 1894, in regular season play. As the defending 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 1368) · This game in the downloadable dataset