Yale defends the belt, 18–0, at home over Yale Alumni.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 725 days into reign #6, which began with a win over Harvard, with 16 defenses already behind it; this was its 17th defense. Yale went on to defend it 8 more times before Princeton took it on November 21, 1885, 1,092 days after the reign began.
For Yale Alumni this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t; this remains its only belt game.
This is the only time Yale and Yale Alumni have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Yale defeated Yale Alumni 18-0 on November 19, 1884, in week 8 of the regular season. As the defending belt holder, 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 284) · This game in the downloadable dataset