Princeton defends the belt, 14–0, on the road at Columbia.
AP poll, week 3: Princeton No. 10 at Columbia unranked · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 357 days into reign #101, which began with a win over Navy, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 1 more time before Pennsylvania took it on October 11, 1952, 371 days after the reign began.
For Columbia this was its 20th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 8th of 8 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 7–0; all-time Princeton leads 8–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton traveled to Columbia on September 27, 1952, as the defending belt holder. Princeton won 14-0 and retained the belt.
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 30897) · This game in the downloadable dataset