Harvard takes the belt, 2–1, at home over Princeton.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard took the belt here, ending Princeton’s run of 1,451 days and 25 defenses (reign #4) and starting reign #5. It lasted 7 days and 0 defenses, until Yale took it on November 25, 1882.
For Harvard this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the 4th of 13 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 2–0–1; all-time it is 6–6–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton traveled to Harvard on November 18, 1882, for a regular season matchup in week 7. Harvard won 2-1, taking the College Football Belt from Princeton 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 193) · This game in the downloadable dataset