Yale defends the belt, 92–0, at home over Rutgers.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 346 days into reign #6, which began with a win over Harvard, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Yale went on to defend it 20 more times before Princeton took it on November 21, 1885, 1,092 days after the reign began.
For Rutgers this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the first of 3 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Yale leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defeated Rutgers 92-0 on November 6, 1883, in week 8 of the regular season. Yale was the belt holder going into 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 225) · This game in the downloadable dataset