Princeton defends the belt, 10–0, on the road at Pennsylvania.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 1,444 days into reign #4, which began with a win over Yale, with 23 defenses already behind it; this was its 24th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 1 more time before Harvard took it on November 18, 1882, 1,451 days after the reign began.
For Pennsylvania this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 8th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 7–0; all-time Princeton leads 18–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton, defending the belt, traveled to Pennsylvania on November 11, 1882 and defeated the home team 10-0. Princeton retained the belt with the victory.
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 190) · This game in the downloadable dataset