Princeton takes the belt, 11–6, on the road at Yale.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton took the belt here, ending Yale’s run of 357 days and 10 defenses (reign #19) and starting reign #20. It lasted 336 days and 5 defenses, until Navy took it on October 15, 1904.
For Princeton this was its 14th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 5 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 20th of 23 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 8–5–6; all-time Princeton leads 9–8–6. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton visited Yale on November 14, 1903, and defeated the home team 11-6. With this victory, Princeton took the College Football Belt from Yale.
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 4039) · This game in the downloadable dataset