Yale takes the belt, 2–0, at home over Princeton.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale took the belt here, ending Princeton’s run of 2,574 days and 10 defenses (reign #2) and starting reign #3. It lasted 728 days and 10 defenses, until Princeton took it on November 28, 1878.
For Yale this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the 2nd of 23 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 1–0; all-time Princeton leads 9–8–6. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton visited Yale on November 30, 1876, in a regular season matchup. Yale won 2-0, taking the College Football Belt from Princeton on the field.
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 56) · This game in the downloadable dataset