Yale defends the belt, 93–0, on the road at Columbia.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 357 days into reign #6, which began with a win over Harvard, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Yale went on to defend it 18 more times before Princeton took it on November 21, 1885, 1,092 days after the reign began.
For Columbia this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 1–0; all-time Yale leads 5–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the belt on November 17, 1883, in a matchup at Columbia. Yale won 93-0 to retain the 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 235) · This game in the downloadable dataset