Yale defends the belt, 44–0, at home over Tufts.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 702 days into reign #11, which began with a win over Princeton, with 20 defenses already behind it; this was its 21st defense. Yale went on to defend it 15 more times before Princeton took it on November 30, 1893, 1,099 days after the reign began.
For Tufts this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 6 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 2nd of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 1–0; all-time Yale leads 5–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale hosted Tufts on October 29, 1892, in a regular season contest. Yale won 44-0, successfully defending the College Football Belt against the visiting Tufts team.
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 1086) · This game in the downloadable dataset