Princeton defends the belt, 54–13, on the road at Harvard.
AP poll, week 9: Princeton No. 5 at Harvard unranked · No. 1 that week: Wisconsin. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 35 days into reign #101, which began with a win over Navy, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 4 more times before Pennsylvania took it on October 11, 1952, 371 days after the reign began.
For Harvard this was its 29th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 10 times before.
It was the 13th of 13 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 6–5–1; all-time it is 6–6–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton visited Harvard on November 10, 1951, in week 9 of the regular season. Harvard won the game 54-13, but Princeton retained the belt as the defending champion.
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 30656) · This game in the downloadable dataset