Yale defends the belt, 12–0, at home over Princeton.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 728 days into reign #11, which began with a win over Princeton, with 25 defenses already behind it; this was its 26th defense. Yale went on to defend it 10 more times before Princeton took it on November 30, 1893, 1,099 days after the reign began.
For Princeton this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before.
It was the 17th of 23 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 6–4–6; all-time Princeton leads 9–8–6. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defeated Princeton 12-0 on November 24, 1892 in New Haven. As the defending belt holder, Yale successfully retained the lineal championship 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 1146) · This game in the downloadable dataset