Yale defends the belt, 94–0, on the road at Wesleyan (CT).
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 308 days into reign #6, which began with a win over Harvard, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Yale went on to defend it 22 more times before Princeton took it on November 21, 1885, 1,092 days after the reign began.
For Wesleyan (CT) this was its 2nd 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 2nd of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 1–0; all-time Yale leads 20–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale traveled to Wesleyan (CT) on September 29, 1883, in week 2 of the regular season. Wesleyan (CT) won 94-0. Yale was the belt holder entering the game and 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 203) · This game in the downloadable dataset