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Belt / 1892 season / Reign #11 · Game 156 of 1,643
October 12, 1892 Week 4 · Regular Season Belt defended

Yale defends the belt, 32–0, at home over Williams.

Home · Defending Holder
Yale 32
AT
Away · Challenger
Williams 0
Belt context

Where this game sits in the lineage

Yale came in 685 days into reign #11, which began with a win over Princeton, with 15 defenses already behind it; this was its 16th defense. Yale went on to defend it 20 more times before Princeton took it on November 30, 1893, 1,099 days after the reign began.

For Williams this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 13 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.

It was the 5th of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 4–0; all-time Yale leads 6–0. Every meeting →

Historical Note

About this game

Yale defeated Williams 32-0 on October 12, 1892, in New Haven. The victory allowed Yale to retain 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 1013) · This game in the downloadable dataset