Yale defends the belt, 49–0, on the road at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 354 days into reign #6, which began with a win over Harvard, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Yale went on to defend it 19 more times before Princeton took it on November 21, 1885, 1,092 days after the reign began.
For Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t; this remains its only belt game.
This is the only time Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and Yale have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Yale traveled to Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute on November 14, 1883, and defeated the home team 49-0 to retain the college football belt.
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 230) · This game in the downloadable dataset