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Belt / 1912 season / Reign #32 · Game 382 of 1,643
September 28, 1912 Week 2 · Regular Season Belt defended

Princeton defends the belt, 65–0, at home over Stevens.

Home · Defending Holder
Princeton 65
AT
Away · Challenger
Stevens 0
Belt context

Where this game sits in the lineage

Princeton came in 329 days into reign #32, which began with a win over Harvard, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Princeton went on to defend it 5 more times before Harvard took it on November 2, 1912, 364 days after the reign began.

For Stevens this was its 13th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 13 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.

It was the 7th of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 6–0; all-time Princeton leads 7–0. Every meeting →

Historical Note

About this game

Princeton defeated Stevens 65-0 on September 28, 1912. As the defending belt 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 7499) · This game in the downloadable dataset