Yale defends the belt, 52–0, at home over Crescent A.C..
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 1,074 days into reign #6, which began with a win over Harvard, with 23 defenses already behind it; this was its 24th defense. Yale went on to defend it 1 more time before Princeton took it on November 21, 1885, 1,092 days after the reign began.
For Crescent A.C. this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 10 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the first of 8 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Yale leads 8–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the belt on November 3, 1885, defeating visiting Crescent A.C. by a score of 52-0. With the victory, Yale retained the lineal championship.
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 309) · This game in the downloadable dataset