Princeton defends the belt, 61–6, on the road at Stevens.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 326 days into reign #7, which began with a win over Yale, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Princeton went on to defend it 13 more times before Harvard took it on November 12, 1887, 721 days after the reign began.
For Stevens this was its 10th 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 6th of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 5–0; all-time Princeton leads 7–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton traveled to face Stevens on October 13, 1886, in week 3 of the regular season. Stevens defeated Princeton 61-6. As the belt's defending champion, Princeton retained the belt 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 342) · This game in the downloadable dataset