Yale defends the belt, 6–0, at home over Princeton.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 364 days into reign #6, which began with a win over Harvard, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. Yale went on to defend it 16 more times before Princeton took it on November 21, 1885, 1,092 days after the reign began.
For Princeton this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 9th of 23 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 2–2–4; all-time Princeton leads 9–8–6. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the College Football Belt at home against Princeton on November 24, 1883, winning 6-0. The victory allowed Yale 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 241) · This game in the downloadable dataset