Yale defends the belt, 52–0, at home over Harvard.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 728 days into reign #6, which began with a win over Harvard, with 17 defenses already behind it; this was its 18th defense. Yale went on to defend it 7 more times before Princeton took it on November 21, 1885, 1,092 days after the reign began.
For Harvard this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 4th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 3–0; all-time Yale leads 12–6–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defeated Harvard 52-0 on November 22, 1884. As the defending belt holder, Yale retained the college football 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 286) · This game in the downloadable dataset