Princeton defends the belt, 9–0, at home over Pennsylvania.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 1,430 days into reign #4, which began with a win over Yale, with 21 defenses already behind it; this was its 22nd defense. Princeton went on to defend it 3 more times before Harvard took it on November 18, 1882, 1,451 days after the reign began.
For Pennsylvania this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 7th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 6–0; all-time Princeton leads 18–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton hosted Pennsylvania on October 28, 1882, in week four of the regular season. Princeton won 9-0 and retained the College Football Belt as the defending champion.
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 177) · This game in the downloadable dataset