Princeton defends the belt, 2–0, at home over Columbia.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 338 days into reign #4, which began with a win over Yale, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Princeton went on to defend it 23 more times before Harvard took it on November 18, 1882, 1,451 days after the reign began.
For Columbia this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 4th of 8 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 3–0; all-time Princeton leads 8–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton defended the College Football Belt on November 1, 1879, defeating visiting Columbia 2-0. The victory allowed Princeton to retain the 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 98) · This game in the downloadable dataset