Princeton defends the belt, 3–0, on the road at Rutgers.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 1,447 days into reign #4, which began with a win over Yale, with 24 defenses already behind it; this was its 25th defense. It was the last defense: Harvard took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 18, 1882.
For Rutgers this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 10th of 15 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 8–1; all-time Princeton leads 14–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton traveled to Rutgers on November 14, 1882, in a regular season matchup where Princeton, as the belt holder, defeated Rutgers 3-0 to retain the lineal championship.
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 192) · This game in the downloadable dataset