Princeton defends the belt, 3–0, on the road at Columbia.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 2,555 days into reign #2, which began with a win over Rutgers, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 1 more time before Yale took it on November 30, 1876, 2,574 days after the reign began.
For Columbia this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 3rd of 8 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 2–0; all-time Princeton leads 8–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton traveled to Columbia on November 11, 1876, in the second week of the regular season. Princeton won 3-0, retaining the College Football Belt.
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 50) · This game in the downloadable dataset