Princeton defends the belt, 30–0, on the road at Pennsylvania.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 329 days into reign #7, which began with a win over Yale, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 12 more times before Harvard took it on November 12, 1887, 721 days after the reign began.
For Pennsylvania this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 10th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 9–0; all-time Princeton leads 18–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton visited Pennsylvania on October 16, 1886, in a regular season matchup. Pennsylvania won 30-0. 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 346) · This game in the downloadable dataset