Princeton defends the belt, 6–2, at home over Rutgers.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 364 days into reign #2, which began with a win over Rutgers, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Princeton went on to defend it 9 more times before Yale took it on November 30, 1876, 2,574 days after the reign began.
For Rutgers this was its first shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 3rd of 15 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 1–1; all-time Princeton leads 14–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton hosted Rutgers on November 12, 1870, in the second week of the regular season. Princeton won 6-2 and 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 4) · This game in the downloadable dataset