Princeton retains the belt after a 0–0 tie with Yale.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 364 days into reign #4, which began with a win over Yale, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 20 more times before Harvard took it on November 18, 1882, 1,451 days after the reign began.
For Yale this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
It was the 5th of 23 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 2–1–1; all-time Princeton leads 9–8–6. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton visited Yale on November 27, 1879, in a scoreless tie. Under the site's tie rule, the belt holder retained possession on a tie, so Princeton successfully defended the 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 111) · This game in the downloadable dataset