Princeton defends the belt, 5–0, at home over Rutgers.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 1,416 days into reign #4, which began with a win over Yale, with 20 defenses already behind it; this was its 21st defense. Princeton went on to defend it 4 more times before Harvard took it on November 18, 1882, 1,451 days after the reign began.
For Rutgers this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 9th of 15 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 7–1; all-time Princeton leads 14–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton defended the College Football Belt on October 14, 1882, defeating visiting Rutgers 5-0 to retain the title in week 2 of the regular 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 170) · This game in the downloadable dataset