Princeton defends the belt, 7–0, at home over Stevens.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 1,059 days into reign #4, which began with a win over Yale, with 11 defenses already behind it; this was its 12th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 13 more times before Harvard took it on November 18, 1882, 1,451 days after the reign began.
For Stevens this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 13 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 4th of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 3–0; all-time Princeton leads 7–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton defended the belt on October 22, 1881, defeating Stevens 7-0 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 138) · This game in the downloadable dataset