Princeton defends the belt, 57–0, on the road at Pennsylvania.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 697 days into reign #7, which began with a win over Yale, with 12 defenses already behind it; this was its 13th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 3 more times before Harvard took it on November 12, 1887, 721 days after the reign began.
For Pennsylvania this was its 14th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 13th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 12–0; all-time Princeton leads 18–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton traveled to Pennsylvania on October 19, 1887, in a week 4 regular season matchup. Pennsylvania won 57-0. Princeton retained the 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 422) · This game in the downloadable dataset