Princeton retains the belt after a 0–0 tie with Yale.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton came in 369 days into reign #7, which began with a win over Yale, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. Princeton went on to defend it 7 more times before Harvard took it on November 12, 1887, 721 days after the reign began.
For Yale this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
It was the 12th of 23 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 3–3–5; all-time Princeton leads 9–8–6. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton visited Yale on November 25, 1886, in a regular season matchup that ended in a 0-0 tie. Under the site's tie rule, the belt holder retains possession in the event of a draw, so Princeton successfully defended the belt.
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 398) · This game in the downloadable dataset