Princeton retains the belt after a 0–0 tie with Yale.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 1,092 days into reign #4, which began with a win over Yale, with 18 defenses already behind it; this was its 19th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 6 more times before Harvard took it on November 18, 1882, 1,451 days after the reign began.
For Yale this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
It was the 7th of 23 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 2–1–3; all-time Princeton leads 9–8–6. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton visited Yale on November 24, 1881, in a scoreless tie. Under the belt's tie rule, the holder retains the belt, so Princeton successfully defended it.
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 162) · This game in the downloadable dataset