Yale defends the belt, 42–0, on the road at New York A.C..
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 1,076 days into reign #11, which began with a win over Princeton, with 33 defenses already behind it; this was its 34th defense. Yale went on to defend it 2 more times before Princeton took it on November 30, 1893, 1,099 days after the reign began.
For New York A.C. this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 2 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 traveled to New York A.C. on November 7, 1893, and defeated the home team 42-0 in a regular season matchup. As the defending belt holder, Yale retained the lineal 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 1264) · This game in the downloadable dataset