Navy takes the belt, 10–9, at home over Princeton.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Navy took the belt here, ending Princeton’s run of 336 days and 5 defenses (reign #20) and starting reign #21. It lasted 14 days and 2 defenses, until Swarthmore took it on October 29, 1904.
For Navy this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time it is 1–1.
About this game
Navy defeated Princeton 10-9 on October 15, 1904, taking the College Football Belt in the process. This was the fifth week of the 1904 regular season.
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 4322) · This game in the downloadable dataset