Princeton defends the belt, 12–0, at home over Brown.
AP poll, week 8: Brown 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 28 days into reign #101, which began with a win over Navy, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 5 more times before Pennsylvania took it on October 11, 1952, 371 days after the reign began.
For Brown this was its 18th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
This is the only time Brown and Princeton have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Princeton defeated Brown 12-0 on November 3, 1951, in regular season week 8 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 30597) · This game in the downloadable dataset