Princeton defends the belt, 28–6, on the road at Pennsylvania.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 350 days into reign #7, which began with a win over Yale, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 10 more times before Harvard took it on November 12, 1887, 721 days after the reign began.
For Pennsylvania this was its 13th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 12th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 11–0; all-time Princeton leads 18–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton visited Pennsylvania on November 6, 1886, in week 6 of the regular season. Pennsylvania won 28-6, but Princeton retained the belt as the defending champion.
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 377) · This game in the downloadable dataset