Princeton defends the belt, 5–0, at home over Lafayette.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 333 days into reign #20, which began with a win over Yale, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. It was the last defense: Navy took the belt in the very next belt game, on October 15, 1904.
For Lafayette this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 4th of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 3–0; all-time Princeton leads 5–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton defended the belt at home against Lafayette on October 12, 1904, winning 5-0 to retain the 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 4290) · This game in the downloadable dataset