Yale defends the belt, 22–0, on the road at Manhattan A.C..
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 688 days into reign #11, which began with a win over Princeton, with 16 defenses already behind it; this was its 17th defense. Yale went on to defend it 19 more times before Princeton took it on November 30, 1893, 1,099 days after the reign began.
For Manhattan A.C. this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t; this remains its only belt game.
This is the only time Manhattan A.C. and Yale have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Yale visited Manhattan A.C. on October 15, 1892, and defeated the home team 22-0. As the defending belt holder, Yale retained the College Football 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 1028) · This game in the downloadable dataset