Yale defends the belt, 48–0, on the road at New York A.C..
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 712 days into reign #11, which began with a win over Princeton, with 22 defenses already behind it; this was its 23rd defense. Yale went on to defend it 13 more times before Princeton took it on November 30, 1893, 1,099 days after the reign began.
For New York A.C. this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 2 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Yale leads 2–0.
About this game
Yale traveled to New York A.C. on November 8, 1892, as the defending belt holder. Yale won 48–0 to retain 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 1110) · This game in the downloadable dataset