Princeton defends the belt, 26–6, at home over Lafayette.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 328 days into reign #10, which began with a win over Yale, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 6 more times before Yale took it on November 27, 1890, 364 days after the reign began.
For Lafayette this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 1–0; all-time Princeton leads 5–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton defeated Lafayette 26-6 on October 22, 1890, in the fourth week of the regular season. As the belt's defending holder, Princeton retained the championship with the victory.
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 728) · This game in the downloadable dataset