Princeton defends the belt, 1–0, on the road at Rutgers.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 1,078 days into reign #4, which began with a win over Yale, with 15 defenses already behind it; this was its 16th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 9 more times before Harvard took it on November 18, 1882, 1,451 days after the reign began.
For Rutgers this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 8th of 15 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 6–1; all-time Princeton leads 14–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton visited Rutgers on November 10, 1881, in a week 6 matchup of the 1881 regular season. Rutgers won 1-0. Princeton, as the belt's defending champion, retained the 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 152) · This game in the downloadable dataset