Princeton defends the belt, 13–7, on the road at Pennsylvania.
AP poll, week 5: Princeton No. 8 at Pennsylvania unranked · No. 1 that week: Wisconsin. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 7 days into reign #101, which began with a win over Navy, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Princeton went on to defend it 8 more times before Pennsylvania took it on October 11, 1952, 371 days after the reign began.
For Pennsylvania this was its 40th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before.
It was the 19th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 17–1; all-time Princeton leads 18–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton visited Pennsylvania on October 13, 1951, in a regular-season matchup. Pennsylvania won the game 13-7, but Princeton, as the belt's defending holder, retained the belt by virtue of not losing it on the field.
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 30424) · This game in the downloadable dataset