Yale defends the belt, 60–0, at home over Wesleyan (CT).
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 305 days into reign #6, which began with a win over Harvard, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Yale went on to defend it 23 more times before Princeton took it on November 21, 1885, 1,092 days after the reign began.
For Wesleyan (CT) this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 30 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the first of 20 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Yale leads 20–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the belt at home against Wesleyan (CT) on September 26, 1883, winning 60-0. Yale retained the belt 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 202) · This game in the downloadable dataset