Yale defends the belt, 113–0, on the road at Dartmouth.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 700 days into reign #6, which began with a win over Harvard, with 14 defenses already behind it; this was its 15th defense. Yale went on to defend it 10 more times before Princeton took it on November 21, 1885, 1,092 days after the reign began.
For Dartmouth this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 14 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Yale leads 2–0.
About this game
Yale visited Dartmouth on October 25, 1884, in a regular season matchup. Dartmouth won 113-0. Yale, as the belt holder entering the game, 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 261) · This game in the downloadable dataset