Princeton defends the belt, 12–4, at home over Cornell.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 324 days into reign #12, which began with a win over Yale, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 2 more times before Pennsylvania took it on November 10, 1894, 345 days after the reign began.
For Cornell this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Princeton leads 2–0.
About this game
Princeton defended the College Football Belt at home against Cornell on October 20, 1894, winning 12-4 to retain the 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 1392) · This game in the downloadable dataset