Yale defends the belt, 76–10, on the road at Rutgers.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 697 days into reign #6, which began with a win over Harvard, with 13 defenses already behind it; this was its 14th defense. Yale went on to defend it 11 more times before Princeton took it on November 21, 1885, 1,092 days after the reign began.
For Rutgers this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 1–0; all-time Yale leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale visited Rutgers on October 22, 1884, in a regular season matchup. Rutgers won 76-10. Yale retained the belt 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 257) · This game in the downloadable dataset