Princeton defends the belt, 27–0, at home over Yale.
AP poll, week 10: Yale unranked at Princeton No. 5 · No. 1 that week: Wisconsin. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 42 days into reign #101, which began with a win over Navy, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 3 more times before Pennsylvania took it on October 11, 1952, 371 days after the reign began.
For Yale this was its 24th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 7 times before.
It was the 23rd of 23 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 8–8–6; all-time Princeton leads 9–8–6. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton defeated Yale 27-0 on November 17, 1951, in week 10 of the regular season. As the belt's defending holder, Princeton retained the lineal 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 30713) · This game in the downloadable dataset