Princeton defends the belt, 61–19, at home over Rutgers.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 364 days into reign #101, which began with a win over Navy, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. It was the last defense: Pennsylvania took the belt in the very next belt game, on October 11, 1952.
For Rutgers this was its 18th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 15th of 15 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 13–1; all-time Princeton leads 14–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton defeated Rutgers 61-19 on October 4, 1952, in week 4 of the regular season. As the belt's defending holder, Princeton retained the belt with this 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 30960) · This game in the downloadable dataset