Yale defends the belt, 22–0, on the road at Crescent A.C..
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 681 days into reign #11, which began with a win over Princeton, with 14 defenses already behind it; this was its 15th defense. Yale went on to defend it 21 more times before Princeton took it on November 30, 1893, 1,099 days after the reign began.
For Crescent A.C. this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 10 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 7th of 8 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 6–0; all-time Yale leads 8–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale visited Crescent A.C. on October 8, 1892, in a regular season game where Crescent A.C. won 22-0. Yale was the defending belt holder and retained the belt 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 1000) · This game in the downloadable dataset