Princeton defends the belt, 3–0, at home over Dartmouth.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 7 days into reign #32, which began with a win over Harvard, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Princeton went on to defend it 7 more times before Harvard took it on November 2, 1912, 364 days after the reign began.
For Dartmouth this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 14 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the first of 3 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Princeton leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton defended the College Football Belt on November 11, 1911, defeating visiting Dartmouth 3-0 to retain the title.
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 7368) · This game in the downloadable dataset