Yale defends the belt, 18–0, at home over Brown.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 1,042 days into reign #11, which began with a win over Princeton, with 26 defenses already behind it; this was its 27th defense. Yale went on to defend it 9 more times before Princeton took it on November 30, 1893, 1,099 days after the reign began.
For Brown this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Brown and Yale have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Yale defended the College Football Belt with an 18-0 victory over Brown on October 4, 1893, in the second week of the regular season. The win allowed Yale to retain possession of 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 1170) · This game in the downloadable dataset