Princeton defends the belt, 6–0, at home over Pennsylvania.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 345 days into reign #10, which began with a win over Yale, with 11 defenses already behind it; this was its 12th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 1 more time before Yale took it on November 27, 1890, 364 days after the reign began.
For Pennsylvania this was its 22nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 17th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 16–0; all-time Princeton leads 18–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton hosted Pennsylvania on November 8, 1890, in a regular season matchup. Princeton won 6-0 and retained the College Football Belt.
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 765) · This game in the downloadable dataset