Princeton defends the belt, 10–0, at home over Georgetown.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 322 days into reign #20, which began with a win over Yale, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Princeton went on to defend it 3 more times before Navy took it on October 15, 1904, 336 days after the reign began.
For Georgetown this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 2 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Princeton leads 2–0.
About this game
Princeton hosted Georgetown on October 1, 1904, in a regular season matchup. Princeton won 10-0 and retained the College Football Belt as the defending champion.
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 4208) · This game in the downloadable dataset