Princeton defends the belt, 57–0, on the road at Columbia A.C..
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 2 days into reign #10, which began with a win over Yale, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Princeton went on to defend it 12 more times before Yale took it on November 27, 1890, 364 days after the reign began.
For Columbia A.C. this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 2 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Princeton leads 2–0.
About this game
Princeton traveled to face Columbia A.C. on November 30, 1889, and defeated the home team 57-0 to retain the College Football Belt in regular season week 10 play.
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 681) · This game in the downloadable dataset