Princeton takes the belt, 8–6, at home over Harvard.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton took the belt here, ending Harvard’s run of 371 days and 8 defenses (reign #31) and starting reign #32. It lasted 364 days and 8 defenses, until Harvard took it on November 2, 1912.
For Princeton this was its 15th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 6 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 7th of 13 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 3–2–1; all-time it is 6–6–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton defeated Harvard 8-6 on November 4, 1911 in Princeton, taking the College Football Belt from Harvard by virtue of 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 7328) · This game in the downloadable dataset