Princeton defends the belt, 12–0, at home over Dickinson.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 319 days into reign #20, which began with a win over Yale, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Princeton went on to defend it 4 more times before Navy took it on October 15, 1904, 336 days after the reign began.
For Dickinson this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 4 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
This is the only time Dickinson and Princeton have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Princeton defended the College Football Belt on September 28, 1904, defeating visiting Dickinson 12-0 in week 3 of the regular season. The victory allowed Princeton to retain the belt.
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 4169) · This game in the downloadable dataset