Princeton defends the belt, 6–0, on the road at Pennsylvania.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 2,545 days into reign #2, which began with a win over Rutgers, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 2 more times before Yale took it on November 30, 1876, 2,574 days after the reign began.
For Pennsylvania this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 20 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Princeton leads 18–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton traveled to Pennsylvania on November 1, 1876, in the first week of the regular season. Pennsylvania won 6-0, but 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 45) · This game in the downloadable dataset