Yale defends the belt, 55–0, on the road at Stevens.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 1,050 days into reign #6, which began with a win over Harvard, with 19 defenses already behind it; this was its 20th defense. Yale went on to defend it 5 more times before Princeton took it on November 21, 1885, 1,092 days after the reign began.
For Stevens this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 13 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 4th of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 3–0; all-time Yale leads 6–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale traveled to Stevens on October 10, 1885, in a week 2 matchup of the 1885 regular season. Stevens defeated Yale 55-0. 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 294) · This game in the downloadable dataset