Princeton defends the belt, 53–15, at home over Cornell.
AP poll, week 7: Cornell unranked at Princeton No. 4 · No. 1 that week: Wisconsin. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 21 days into reign #101, which began with a win over Navy, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Princeton went on to defend it 6 more times before Pennsylvania took it on October 11, 1952, 371 days after the reign began.
For Cornell this was its 17th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 1–0; all-time Princeton leads 2–0.
About this game
Princeton defeated Cornell 53-15 on October 27, 1951, in regular season week 7 play. As the belt's defending holder, Princeton retained the championship 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 30540) · This game in the downloadable dataset