Yale defends the belt, 10–0, at home over Princeton.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 366 days into reign #9, which began with a win over Harvard, with 12 defenses already behind it; this was its 13th defense. Yale went on to defend it 16 more times before Princeton took it on November 28, 1889, 735 days after the reign began.
For Princeton this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before.
It was the 13th of 23 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 3–3–6; all-time Princeton leads 9–8–6. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defeated Princeton 10-0 on November 24, 1888, in the regular season finale. As the belt's defending holder, Yale retained the championship 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 560) · This game in the downloadable dataset