Yale defends the belt, 16–0, on the road at Crescent A.C..
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 1,045 days into reign #11, which began with a win over Princeton, with 27 defenses already behind it; this was its 28th defense. Yale went on to defend it 8 more times before Princeton took it on November 30, 1893, 1,099 days after the reign began.
For Crescent A.C. this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 10 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 8th of 8 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 7–0; all-time Yale leads 8–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale, defending the belt, defeated Crescent A.C. 16-0 on October 7, 1893. The victory allowed Yale to retain the lineal championship.
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 1182) · This game in the downloadable dataset