Princeton defends the belt, 12–0, on the road at Crescent A.C..
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 324 days into reign #10, which began with a win over Yale, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 7 more times before Yale took it on November 27, 1890, 364 days after the reign began.
For Crescent A.C. this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 10 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
This is the only time Crescent A.C. and Princeton have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Princeton defended the belt on October 18, 1890, defeating Crescent A.C. 12-0 in regular season play. With this victory, Princeton retained possession of 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 720) · This game in the downloadable dataset