Yale takes the belt, 17–8, at home over Harvard.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale took the belt here, ending Harvard’s run of 12 days and 1 defense (reign #8) and starting reign #9. It lasted 735 days and 29 defenses, until Princeton took it on November 28, 1889.
For Yale this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before — and it took it back here.
It was the 5th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 4–0; all-time Yale leads 12–6–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defeated Harvard 17-8 on November 24, 1887, taking the College Football Belt from the visiting Crimson. This was the ninth game of Yale's 1887 regular season.
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 472) · This game in the downloadable dataset