Yale defends the belt, 82–0, at home over Williams.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 1,063 days into reign #11, which began with a win over Princeton, with 31 defenses already behind it; this was its 32nd defense. Yale went on to defend it 4 more times before Princeton took it on November 30, 1893, 1,099 days after the reign began.
For Williams this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 13 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 6th of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 5–0; all-time Yale leads 6–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the College Football Belt at home against Williams on October 25, 1893, winning decisively 82-0. The victory allowed Yale to retain 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 1232) · This game in the downloadable dataset