Princeton defends the belt, 58–0, at home over Stevens.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 322 days into reign #7, which began with a win over Yale, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Princeton went on to defend it 14 more times before Harvard took it on November 12, 1887, 721 days after the reign began.
For Stevens this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 13 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 5th of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 4–0; all-time Princeton leads 7–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton defended the College Football Belt on October 9, 1886, defeating Stevens 58-0. With the victory, Princeton 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 336) · This game in the downloadable dataset