Yale defends the belt, 18–0, at home over Wesleyan (CT).
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 1,054 days into reign #6, which began with a win over Harvard, with 20 defenses already behind it; this was its 21st defense. Yale went on to defend it 4 more times before Princeton took it on November 21, 1885, 1,092 days after the reign began.
For Wesleyan (CT) this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 30 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 6th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 5–0; all-time Yale leads 20–0. Every meeting →
About this game
On October 14, 1885, Yale defeated Wesleyan (CT) 18-0 at home in a regular season matchup. Yale was the belt holder and successfully defended it 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 297) · This game in the downloadable dataset