Yale defends the belt, 28–0, on the road at Crescent A.C..
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 348 days into reign #9, which began with a win over Harvard, with 9 defenses already behind it; this was its 10th defense. Yale went on to defend it 19 more times before Princeton took it on November 28, 1889, 735 days after the reign began.
For Crescent A.C. this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 10 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 2nd of 8 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 1–0; all-time Yale leads 8–0. Every meeting →
About this game
On November 6, 1888, Yale traveled to face Crescent A.C. and defeated them 28-0. Yale was defending the College Football Belt and successfully retained it 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 535) · This game in the downloadable dataset