Princeton defends the belt, 6–0, at home over Stevens.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 2,198 days into reign #2, which began with a win over Rutgers, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 3 more times before Yale took it on November 30, 1876, 2,574 days after the reign began.
For Stevens this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 13 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the first of 7 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Princeton leads 7–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton, holding the belt, defeated Stevens 6-0 on November 20, 1875. The victory allowed Princeton to retain the lineal championship.
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 42) · This game in the downloadable dataset