Pennsylvania takes the belt, 12–0, on the road at Princeton.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania took the belt here, ending Princeton’s run of 345 days and 7 defenses (reign #12) and starting reign #13. It lasted 714 days and 24 defenses, until Lafayette took it on October 24, 1896.
For Pennsylvania this was its 26th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the 18th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 17–0; all-time Princeton leads 18–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania visited Princeton on November 10, 1894, and defeated the host Tigers 12-0. With this victory on the field, Pennsylvania claimed the College Football Belt from Princeton.
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 1458) · This game in the downloadable dataset