Yale takes the belt, 1–0, on the road at Harvard.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale took the belt here, ending Harvard’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #5) and starting reign #6. It lasted 1,092 days and 25 defenses, until Princeton took it on November 21, 1885.
For Yale this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
It was the 2nd of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 1–0; all-time Yale leads 12–6–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale visited Harvard on November 25, 1882, and defeated the belt holder by a score of 1-0. With this victory, Yale took the College Football Belt from Harvard.
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 199) · This game in the downloadable dataset