Yale defends the belt, 2–1, at home over Princeton.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 6 days into reign #6, which began with a win over Harvard, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Yale went on to defend it 24 more times before Princeton took it on November 21, 1885, 1,092 days after the reign began.
For Princeton this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 8th of 23 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 2–1–4; all-time Princeton leads 9–8–6. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defeated Princeton 2-1 on December 1, 1882, in week 9 of the regular season. 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 200) · This game in the downloadable dataset