Princeton defends the belt, 60–0, on the road at Columbia A.C..
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 335 days into reign #10, which began with a win over Yale, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 4 more times before Yale took it on November 27, 1890, 364 days after the reign began.
For Columbia A.C. this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 2 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 1–0; all-time Princeton leads 2–0.
About this game
Princeton traveled to face Columbia A.C. on October 29, 1890, in week 5 of the regular season. Columbia A.C. won 60-0. Princeton, as the belt's defending holder, retained the belt despite the loss.
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 741) · This game in the downloadable dataset