Princeton defends the belt, 3–0, on the road at Yale.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 1,463 days into reign #2, which began with a win over Rutgers, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Princeton went on to defend it 7 more times before Yale took it on November 30, 1876, 2,574 days after the reign began.
For Yale this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 23 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Princeton leads 9–8–6. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton traveled to Yale on November 15, 1873, in week 5 of the regular season. Yale won the game 3-0. As the belt's defending champion, Princeton 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 16) · This game in the downloadable dataset