Yale defends the belt, 28–0, at home over Dartmouth.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 1,052 days into reign #11, which began with a win over Princeton, with 28 defenses already behind it; this was its 29th defense. Yale went on to defend it 7 more times before Princeton took it on November 30, 1893, 1,099 days after the reign began.
For Dartmouth this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 14 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 1–0; all-time Yale leads 2–0.
About this game
Yale defeated visiting Dartmouth 28-0 on October 14, 1893. As the belt holder, Yale successfully defended its title 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 1204) · This game in the downloadable dataset