Yale defends the belt, 69–0, at home over Stevens.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 338 days into reign #9, which began with a win over Harvard, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. Yale went on to defend it 21 more times before Princeton took it on November 28, 1889, 735 days after the reign began.
For Stevens this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 13 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 5th of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 4–0; all-time Yale leads 6–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the belt on October 27, 1888, defeating Stevens 69-0 in New Haven. Yale retained possession of the college football belt with the victory.
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 519) · This game in the downloadable dataset