Yale retains the belt after a 0–0 tie with Princeton.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 733 days into reign #6, which began with a win over Harvard, with 18 defenses already behind it; this was its 19th defense. Yale went on to defend it 6 more times before Princeton took it on November 21, 1885, 1,092 days after the reign began.
For Princeton this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
It was the 10th of 23 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 3–2–4; all-time Princeton leads 9–8–6. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton traveled to Yale on November 27, 1884, in week 9 of the regular season. The game ended in a 0-0 tie. Under the belt's tie rule, Yale retained the belt as the holder.
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 289) · This game in the downloadable dataset