Princeton takes the belt, 6–5, on the road at Yale.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton took the belt here, ending Yale’s run of 1,092 days and 25 defenses (reign #6) and starting reign #7. It lasted 721 days and 16 defenses, until Harvard took it on November 12, 1887.
For Princeton this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before — and it took it back here.
It was the 11th of 23 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 3–2–5; all-time Princeton leads 9–8–6. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton visited Yale on November 21, 1885, and defeated the belt-holder 6-5. With this victory, Princeton took the College Football Belt from Yale.
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 323) · This game in the downloadable dataset