Princeton defends the belt, 18–0, at home over Pennsylvania.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 321 days into reign #10, which began with a win over Yale, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 8 more times before Yale took it on November 27, 1890, 364 days after the reign began.
For Pennsylvania this was its 21st shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 16th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 15–0; all-time Princeton leads 18–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton defended the College Football Belt on October 15, 1890, defeating visiting Pennsylvania 18-0. 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 713) · This game in the downloadable dataset