Yale defends the belt, 23–2, at home over Harvard.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 369 days into reign #6, which began with a win over Harvard, with 9 defenses already behind it; this was its 10th defense. Yale went on to defend it 15 more times before Princeton took it on November 21, 1885, 1,092 days after the reign began.
For Harvard this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 3rd of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 2–0; all-time Yale leads 12–6–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defeated Harvard 23-2 on November 29, 1883, in New Haven. As the belt's defending holder, Yale retained the championship 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 244) · This game in the downloadable dataset