Yale defends the belt, 6–0, at home over Harvard.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 1,094 days into reign #11, which began with a win over Princeton, with 35 defenses already behind it; this was its 36th defense. It was the last defense: Princeton took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 30, 1893.
For Harvard this was its 13th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 9th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 8–0; all-time Yale leads 12–6–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defeated Harvard 6-0 on November 25, 1893, in regular season week 9 play. As the belt's defending 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 1304) · This game in the downloadable dataset