Princeton takes the belt, 6–0, at home over Yale.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton took the belt here, ending Yale’s run of 1,099 days and 36 defenses (reign #11) and starting reign #12. It lasted 345 days and 7 defenses, until Pennsylvania took it on November 10, 1894.
For Princeton this was its 12th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 18th of 23 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 7–4–6; all-time Princeton leads 9–8–6. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton defeated Yale 6-0 on November 30, 1893, taking the College Football Belt from the Yale squad. The victory gave Princeton possession of the lineal championship on the field.
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 1308) · This game in the downloadable dataset