Princeton defends the belt, 41–6, at home over Rutgers.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 333 days into reign #32, which began with a win over Harvard, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 4 more times before Harvard took it on November 2, 1912, 364 days after the reign began.
For Rutgers this was its 15th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 14th of 15 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 12–1; all-time Princeton leads 14–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton hosted Rutgers on October 2, 1912, in a regular season matchup. Princeton won 41-6, successfully defending the college football belt against the visiting Rutgers team.
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 7514) · This game in the downloadable dataset