Princeton defends the belt, 4–1, at home over Rutgers.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 1,099 days into reign #2, which began with a win over Rutgers, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Princeton went on to defend it 8 more times before Yale took it on November 30, 1876, 2,574 days after the reign began.
For Rutgers this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 4th of 15 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 2–1; all-time Princeton leads 14–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton defended the College Football Belt at home against Rutgers on November 16, 1872, winning 4-1. With the victory, Princeton retained the 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 7) · This game in the downloadable dataset