Yale defends the belt, 71–0, at home over Wesleyan (CT).
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 1,068 days into reign #6, which began with a win over Harvard, with 21 defenses already behind it; this was its 22nd defense. Yale went on to defend it 3 more times before Princeton took it on November 21, 1885, 1,092 days after the reign began.
For Wesleyan (CT) this was its 7th 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 7th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 6–0; all-time Yale leads 20–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the belt against Wesleyan (CT) on October 28, 1885, winning 71-0. 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 303) · This game in the downloadable dataset