Yale defends the belt, 50–0, at home over Orange A.C..
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 1,059 days into reign #11, which began with a win over Princeton, with 30 defenses already behind it; this was its 31st defense. Yale went on to defend it 5 more times before Princeton took it on November 30, 1893, 1,099 days after the reign began.
For Orange A.C. this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 5 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 3rd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 2–0; all-time Yale leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale, defending the belt, defeated Orange A.C. 50-0 on October 21, 1893. With the victory, Yale retained the College Football 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 1223) · This game in the downloadable dataset