Yale defends the belt, 34–0, on the road at Pennsylvania.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 324 days into reign #9, which began with a win over Harvard, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Yale went on to defend it 26 more times before Princeton took it on November 28, 1889, 735 days after the reign began.
For Pennsylvania this was its 18th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 1–0; all-time Yale leads 7–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the belt on October 13, 1888, defeating Pennsylvania 34-0 on the road. Yale retained the 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 494) · This game in the downloadable dataset