Pennsylvania takes the belt, 13–7, on the road at Princeton.
AP poll, week 5: Pennsylvania No. 11 at Princeton unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania took the belt here, ending Princeton’s run of 371 days and 9 defenses (reign #101) and starting reign #102. It lasted 21 days and 2 defenses, until Penn State took it on November 1, 1952.
For Pennsylvania this was its 41st shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 20th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 18–1; all-time Princeton leads 18–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania visited Princeton on October 11, 1952, in a regular season matchup, defeating the Tigers 13-7. With the victory, Pennsylvania claimed the College Football Belt from Princeton.
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 31021) · This game in the downloadable dataset