Yale defends the belt, 36–0, at home over Williams.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 678 days into reign #9, which began with a win over Harvard, with 14 defenses already behind it; this was its 15th defense. Yale went on to defend it 14 more times before Princeton took it on November 28, 1889, 735 days after the reign began.
For Williams this was its 2nd 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 2nd of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 1–0; all-time Yale leads 6–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the college football belt at home against Williams on October 2, 1889, winning 36-0 in the second week of the regular season. The dominant victory allowed Yale to retain the belt.
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 571) · This game in the downloadable dataset