Princeton defends the belt, 8–0, on the road at Columbia.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 1,440 days into reign #4, which began with a win over Yale, with 22 defenses already behind it; this was its 23rd defense. Princeton went on to defend it 2 more times before Harvard took it on November 18, 1882, 1,451 days after the reign began.
For Columbia this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 6th of 8 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 5–0; all-time Princeton leads 8–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton traveled to Columbia on November 7, 1882, as the defending belt holder. Columbia defeated Princeton 8-0, but Princeton retained the 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 184) · This game in the downloadable dataset