Princeton defends the belt, 5–0, at home over Princeton Alumni.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 1,413 days into reign #4, which began with a win over Yale, with 19 defenses already behind it; this was its 20th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 5 more times before Harvard took it on November 18, 1882, 1,451 days after the reign began.
For Princeton Alumni this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t; this remains its only belt game.
This is the only time Princeton and Princeton Alumni have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Princeton defeated Princeton Alumni 5-0 on October 11, 1882. The victory allowed Princeton to retain the College Football Belt in the second week of the 1882 season.
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 166) · This game in the downloadable dataset