Yale defends the belt, 14–6, at home over Pennsylvania.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 1,080 days into reign #11, which began with a win over Princeton, with 34 defenses already behind it; this was its 35th defense. Yale went on to defend it 1 more time before Princeton took it on November 30, 1893, 1,099 days after the reign began.
For Pennsylvania this was its 25th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 7th of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 6–0; all-time Yale leads 7–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the College Football Belt at home against Pennsylvania on November 11, 1893, winning 14-6. With the victory, Yale retained possession of the belt in week 7 of the 1893 regular season.
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 1284) · This game in the downloadable dataset