Princeton defends the belt, 76–10, on the road at Pennsylvania.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 5 days into reign #7, which began with a win over Yale, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Princeton went on to defend it 15 more times before Harvard took it on November 12, 1887, 721 days after the reign began.
For Pennsylvania this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 9th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 8–0; all-time Princeton leads 18–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton traveled to Pennsylvania on November 26, 1885, in a regular season matchup where the visiting Tigers defeated the home Quakers 76-10. 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 324) · This game in the downloadable dataset