Yale defends the belt, 31–0, at home over Wesleyan (CT).
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 676 days into reign #6, which began with a win over Harvard, with 10 defenses already behind it; this was its 11th defense. Yale went on to defend it 14 more times before Princeton took it on November 21, 1885, 1,092 days after the reign began.
For Wesleyan (CT) this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 30 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 3rd of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 2–0; all-time Yale leads 20–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the belt on October 1, 1884, defeating visiting Wesleyan (CT) 31-0 in week 1 of the regular season. The victory allowed Yale to retain the lineal 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 246) · This game in the downloadable dataset