Princeton defends the belt, 60–7, at home over Lafayette.
AP poll, week 6: Lafayette unranked at Princeton No. 6 · No. 1 that week: Wisconsin. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 14 days into reign #101, which began with a win over Navy, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Princeton went on to defend it 7 more times before Pennsylvania took it on October 11, 1952, 371 days after the reign began.
For Lafayette this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 5th of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 4–0; all-time Princeton leads 5–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton hosted Lafayette on October 20, 1951, in a regular season matchup. Princeton won 60-7 and retained the College Football Belt.
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 30482) · This game in the downloadable dataset