Princeton defends the belt, 13–0, at home over Dartmouth.
AP poll, week 10: Dartmouth 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 49 days into reign #101, which began with a win over Navy, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 2 more times before Pennsylvania took it on October 11, 1952, 371 days after the reign began.
For Dartmouth this was its 14th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 14 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 3rd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 2–0; all-time Princeton leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton defeated visiting Dartmouth 13-0 on November 24, 1951, in a regular season week 11 matchup. 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 30767) · This game in the downloadable dataset