Princeton defends the belt, 95–0, on the road at Pennsylvania.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 714 days into reign #7, which began with a win over Yale, with 15 defenses already behind it; this was its 16th defense. It was the last defense: Harvard took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 12, 1887.
For Pennsylvania this was its 16th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 15th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 14–0; all-time Princeton leads 18–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton visited Pennsylvania on November 5, 1887, in a regular season matchup. Pennsylvania won 95-0. As the belt's defending champion, Princeton retained the belt 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 448) · This game in the downloadable dataset