Princeton defends the belt, 30–0, on the road at Rutgers.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 690 days into reign #7, which began with a win over Yale, with 10 defenses already behind it; this was its 11th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 5 more times before Harvard took it on November 12, 1887, 721 days after the reign began.
For Rutgers this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 11th of 15 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 9–1; all-time Princeton leads 14–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton traveled to Rutgers on October 12, 1887, in week 3 of the regular season. Rutgers won 30-0. 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 412) · This game in the downloadable dataset