Princeton takes the belt, 8–0, at home over Rutgers.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton took the belt here, ending Rutgers’ run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #1) and starting reign #2. It lasted 2,574 days and 10 defenses, until Yale took it on November 30, 1876.
For Princeton this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the 2nd of 15 belt games between the two; going in, Rutgers led the belt series 1–0; all-time Princeton leads 14–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton defeated Rutgers 8-0 on November 13, 1869 in the second belt game of the site's history. With this victory on the field, Princeton took the College Football Belt from Rutgers.
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 2) · This game in the downloadable dataset