Yale defends the belt, 72–0, at home over Wesleyan (CT).
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 709 days into reign #11, which began with a win over Princeton, with 21 defenses already behind it; this was its 22nd defense. Yale went on to defend it 14 more times before Princeton took it on November 30, 1893, 1,099 days after the reign began.
For Wesleyan (CT) this was its 20th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 30 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 17th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 16–0; all-time Yale leads 20–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defeated Wesleyan (CT) 72-0 on November 5, 1892, in the seventh week of the regular season. Defending the College Football Belt, Yale kept the title 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 1104) · This game in the downloadable dataset