Yale defends the belt, 64–0, at home over Michigan.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 361 days into reign #6, which began with a win over Harvard, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. Yale went on to defend it 17 more times before Princeton took it on November 21, 1885, 1,092 days after the reign began.
For Michigan this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Michigan and Yale have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Yale defended the belt at home against Michigan on November 21, 1883, winning decisively 64-0 to retain the championship.
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 237) · This game in the downloadable dataset