Yale defends the belt, 46–0, at home over Amherst.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 1,056 days into reign #11, which began with a win over Princeton, with 29 defenses already behind it; this was its 30th defense. Yale went on to defend it 6 more times before Princeton took it on November 30, 1893, 1,099 days after the reign began.
For Amherst this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 16 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 9th of 10 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 8–0; all-time Yale leads 10–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defeated Amherst 46-0 on October 18, 1893. As the defending belt holder, Yale retained the 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 1210) · This game in the downloadable dataset