Princeton defends the belt, 6–3, on the road at Yale.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 14 days into reign #32, which began with a win over Harvard, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Princeton went on to defend it 6 more times before Harvard took it on November 2, 1912, 364 days after the reign began.
For Yale this was its 17th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 7 times before.
It was the 21st of 23 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 8–6–6; all-time Princeton leads 9–8–6. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton traveled to Yale on November 18, 1911, for a regular season matchup in week 9. Yale won the game 6-3, but Princeton, as the defending belt holder, retained 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 7407) · This game in the downloadable dataset