Princeton defends the belt, 35–0, at home over Lehigh.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 336 days into reign #32, which began with a win over Harvard, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 3 more times before Harvard took it on November 2, 1912, 364 days after the reign began.
For Lehigh this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 5th of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 4–0; all-time Princeton leads 5–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton hosted Lehigh on October 5, 1912, in week 3 of the regular season. Princeton won 35-0 and retained the College Football Belt as the defending champion.
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 7553) · This game in the downloadable dataset