Princeton defends the belt, 42–0, at home over Pennsylvania.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 700 days into reign #7, which began with a win over Yale, with 13 defenses already behind it; this was its 14th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 2 more times before Harvard took it on November 12, 1887, 721 days after the reign began.
For Pennsylvania this was its 15th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 14th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 13–0; all-time Princeton leads 18–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton defeated Pennsylvania 42-0 on October 22, 1887, in a regular season matchup. As the belt's defending holder, Princeton retained the championship with the victory.
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 431) · This game in the downloadable dataset