Princeton defends the belt, 80–0, at home over Lehigh.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 693 days into reign #7, which began with a win over Yale, with 11 defenses already behind it; this was its 12th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 4 more times before Harvard took it on November 12, 1887, 721 days after the reign began.
For Lehigh this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 5 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Princeton leads 5–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton hosted Lehigh on October 15, 1887, in a regular season matchup. Princeton won 80-0, successfully defending the college football belt against the visiting Lehigh team.
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 419) · This game in the downloadable dataset